Quoin Developers wrote:
Motivation:
CForms user would like to display instructions or some other hint to
the end user in the text input widget itself (as opposed to a tool-tip
on-hover). This text should not be submitted, and if a user wants to
enter text into the input, the tip text should automatically disappear
so that the user does not have to manually delete it.
We implemented this for a couple of projects. Most recently Antonio
Gallardo provided some suggestions as to how we might best integrate
this into CForms, and here are the results which we would like to
contribute this back to the cocoon community. We're open to
suggestions, but we'd like to keep it simple. The only additional
thing might be to set a different class attribute value for the input
element when the tip is being displayed. In this way, the tip text
could be styled distinctly.
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Cool stuff!
A few questions though:
- is the "inline-tip" different from the <fd:hint>?
- if yes, what about adding it besides <fd:hint> and <fd:help> in the
form definition?
- how does "onchange" behave when an event listener is attached to the
input? I mean we must be sure the tip isn't submitted in that case.
Anyway, an interesting addition!
Sylvain
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Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies
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Apache Software Foundation Member Research & Technology Director
