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What the field outlines mean

Solid, dashed, and the colour of a box each tell you something different.

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A placed field's outline tells you how it behaves, before you click it.

![Each field carries its role chip, so you can see whose it is without selecting it](/kb/esign/field-outlines.png)

Solid, in the role's colour — the field stands alone. Required means required, and nothing else decides for it.

Dashed — something else governs it. The colour says what:

  • Violet — a pick-one group. Only one option gets initialed.
  • Sky — an option group. The whole block is a single step when signing.
  • Amber — driven by another field. It applies only when that field is completed (or left blank).

Select any member of a group and its siblings glow, so you can see the whole set without dragging a marquee around to find out what moves with it.

Radio buttons are deliberately left with their original look — their grouping predates this and restyling them would carry no new information.

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