On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 16:44 -0700, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 17:30 -0600, Jay Klehr wrote: > > Nagy Károly wrote: > > > And Jay, (afaik) CSS controls visual size of field, not the number of > > > characters you can type in (VARCHAR(30) field in 600px input widget > > > means 2/3 of a box is empty) > > > > > > Charlie. > > > > > Exactly, the visual size, which is the same as the "size" html > > attribute, which also has no control of how many characters can be > > entered into the field. The "maxlength" html attribute does control the > > number of characters allowed in the field, which CSS doesn't do, as > > stated poorly in my previous email. ;) > > Quite seriously, one way to make it easier to evaluate this would be for > somebody to finish up the remaining parts of ticket #1665. I'm not > saying 100% it will be accepted, since it leaks a bit across the line > between representation and presentation, but there may be no other good > way to do it, so it's not being rejected out of hand.
Sorry, that came across a bit more negatively than I intended: it almost certainly will be accepted (see the threads linked from the bug). So it's not a roll of the dice -- the solution isn't ideal, but barring a better solution, it is a reasonable idea. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
