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I have been using WYSIWYG WB for 3 years now since Serif WebPlus X8 (WP-X8) disappeared, and - having managed to get a working responsive site via one of the templates (thanks in no small part to the support provided by Pablo) - I am really finding it to be a superb replacement/program.

However, since publishing my WB15 site I am experiencing a considerable amount of spam from its Contact page - either via bots, or human interaction, and unfortunately all attempts to get Captchas (any variant) to work have failed.

In my old (fixed layout) WP-X8 site, I got round this by including a 2nd email textbox and placing it behind the message textbox. That way humans did not fill it out as they could not see it, but bots did. This eliminated 100% of bot spam. On my WB15 site - since it appears that objects cannot be placed behind other objects in a Layout Grid - I have added a drop-down combo-box which requires the user to select the 2nd option. Is this method bot-proof (so I can be certain any messages received are human-generated) or can bots change the selection on a combo-box?

The WP-X8 version of my site also utilised the excellent FormMail PHP script from tectite.com (albeit modified to check for a populated 2nd email field - though in this case that check will be irrelevant) which resulted in zero spam messages being received during the site's life. I have searched the WB15 help and forum, but have so far not been able to work out how to use the FormMail script to process messages from my Contact page instead of the inbuilt one - can someone please point me in the right direction?

First note that this has nothing to do with WB15.

A layout grid uses floating layout, this means that all objects are not layered. otherwise the layout would not be flexible.
But in WB15 you can also use fixed layout to implement the same form as in your WP-X8 site. Of course, in thaa case the layout will not be flexible.

You can use third party scripts in the form by specifying the URL of the script in the 'action' property.

Also note that in WB15 you can enabled 'server sided validation' to make sure all input fields are filled.

Sorry Pablo - I didn't mean to suggest it was an issue with WB15 - I am aware that my question was related to things outside of its control.

I now have my script integrated with my form and working successfully - many thanks for directing me to the solution.