shanafme wrote: > I posted this last week, but didn't get any response... Does anyone > have any tips as far as handling large text fields in iUI? Am I doing > it the right way? Any comments would be greatly appreciated. > Sorry, I've been swamped getting an iPhone game ready for submission to the store. There's a handful of emails I'd like to respond to and yours is one of them.
Form-handling, in particular, is an area I have slated for improvement in a coming version of iUI. So I need to start looking at it. I'll investigate and respond to yours and a few others after I catch up on my sleep. -- Sean > Thanks! > > On Jul 10, 10:54 am, shanafme <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello all, I'm relatively new to IUI and want to thank all of those >> who developed it. It is proving to be a great tool to get started >> with iPhone web development... >> >> I'm working on a prototype application and I want to see if I'm >> handling text areas in an appropriate manner. I basically have a >> series of questions that our users will need to fill out. These are >> all going to be fairly lengthy text fields, so my plan is to have the >> user see the first question, complete the text area with his/her >> response, then click a submit button, which will take them to the next >> text field, etc... Each question will be a different <ul>. >> >> Here is a sample of what I have so far: >> <ul id="diagnose0" title="Diagnosis" class="panel" selected="true"> >> <form title="diagnose0" class="panel"> >> <h2>Develop a problem list for this patient</h2> >> <fieldset> >> <div class="row"> >> <textarea rows="15" cols="45" style="padding: 12px 10px 0 0;"> >> </textarea> >> </div> >> </fieldset> >> <a class="whiteButton" type="submit" href="#diagnose1">Next Question</ >> a> >> </form> >> </ul> >> >> As you can see, I'm using a <textarea> inside of a row <div>. The row >> will not have a label element in it because the question is posed >> above the text field in <h2>, therefore, I added the >> <style="padding...> line so that the text area starts out at the very >> left of the row, rather than allowing for the label's space. >> >> This markup looks OK as long as the iPhone is kept in portrait mode as >> evidenced by:http://tinyurl.com/muezwt >> >> However, in landscape mode, it still leaves the space for the >> label:http://tinyurl.com/kjq6bv >> >> So, I guess I'm asking if I'm using the correct procedure for dealing >> with long entry text fields in IUI? If so, how do I style it to >> account for switching to landscape mode. >> >> Any help/comments are appreciated! >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" 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/iphonewebdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
