So you'd get increased flexiblity (in markup control) but at what cost.

additional overhead (an element for each form input)
and having to make a range of elements for various differing situations

or maybe I am missing the point - I am certain that you can do this without
the need to call
a Cake Element for every form element.

am I missing something

 - S



On 3 November 2011 22:17, majna <[email protected]> wrote:

> Instead of using array based options for FormHelper inputs like: label,
> before, after, div, format etc.
> maybe HTML templates would be more friendly and easier to customize. For
> each input type there will be one Cake element as template.
>
> Here is an example, a proof of concept on how it may look like:
> https://gist.github.com/1337871
>
> I think this is more flexible and it does not require for developers
> (designers) to master FormHelper API just to customize HTML.
> Those templates could be "theme" specific (like Twitter Bootstrap) and
> shared as plugin.
> There are some drawbacks of course.
>
> Would you use smth like this?
> Comments are welcome
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