In addition to this, I just tried to break a few more elements. Their is
a checkbox in my table. If I call:
$this->getElement('in_mainmenu')->getDecorator('td')->setOption('colspan',2);
Then the td is appended as a whole, an no longer wrapped! The colspan
attrib is right there:
<td valign="top" colspan="2"></td>
<input type="hidden" name="in_mainmenu" value="0"><input type="checkbox"
name="in_mainmenu" id="in_mainmenu" value="1">
but the closing td should wrap!
If I do not set the colspan attrib, I get what it should be and what it
was like before I updated from svn:
<td valign="top"><label for="in_mainmenu" class="optional">in
navigatie</label>
<div>
<input type="hidden" name="in_mainmenu" value="0"><input type="checkbox"
name="in_mainmenu" id="in_mainmenu" value="1"></div></td>
You can see here that the td also moved passed label and div towards the
checkbox (in the first HTML sample)! Note that I do not re-ad the
decorator to the stack, I just call upon its reference to set an option.
Any help appreciated. I start to think this is a bug and I will revert
to the old element.php
Regards,
Bart McLeod
Bart McLeod schreef:
Hi all, and Matthew in particular,
First of all, sorry to bother you all if I missed some earlier
messages about this. It's just I am at a deadline and need quick insight.
I use pretty complex forms using table decorators, rows, td's an so
on. Tables shouldn't be used for formatting, I know, and I don't
really care: they'r useful.
To manage al this complexitity I used a fairly simple set of rules,
that can be handed over to a formbuilder, which then builds the form
based on those rules.
What the builder does is put al elements with all they decorators in a
table cell, group those in a row and group all rows in a table.
In some cases, a row contains more cells than another and I use the
colspan attribute to fill the gap.
I had this working until I upgraded 5 minutes ago from svn.
Now what changed, is that if I want to set an option on a decorator,
say I want to set the option colspan=2 on the last table cell, the
decorators just break... For example, openOnly does not work anymore,
although it is being set along with other settings that do work.
I believe something changed in the way elementDecorators are applied.
If I set an option after applying elementDecorators, the order of the
decorators seems to change. If I just leave the decorators in place
and change none of their options everything is fine, but if I pull
them out and set an option, they get a different position in the
rendering chain. At least, that is what it looks like to me.
Anyone knows what may have caused this? Know a workaround, fix, other
approach that does work?
Regards,
Bart McLeod
