On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Naftoli Gugenheim <[email protected]>wrote:
> > What I would like to do: > <label for="name">Name</label> <person:name I'd="name" size="10" > class="special" style="vertical-align: top" maxlength="5" tabindex="1" /> > Okay, just a little contrived... > My understanding is you can do this by prefixing the attribute with > "lift:"; otherwise it will not be output but is available to the snippet > code, i.e., without the prefix you are making an attribute available to the > snippet but that's it. I'm sorry, but I'm still clueless about what you're talking about. Do you want to bind to <person:name/> and add the attributes in the <person:name /> element to the resulting element? The lift prefix has nothing to do with binding. Binding is done in net.liftweb.util and is purely a way of substituting dynamic XML into well defined points in a NodeSeq. So... if you want to include the attributes of an Elem that you are replacing during a bind operation, you have access to the current node via Helpers.currentNode: Box[Elem] and you can get the attributes: currentNode.map(_.attributes) openOr Null > > I'm getting this from Exploring Lift page 115. > > > > ------------------------------------- > David Pollak<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Naftoli Gugenheim <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Why was the decision made, if I understand correctly, that normal > > attributes are not preserved in a bound node, and are are only available > for > > the snippet's usage, and if you want the attribute to be "sticky" you > have > > to prefix it with "lift:"? Wouldn't it be better the other way? > > > I don't understand your question. Are you talking about Helpers.bind() or > are you talking about snippet dispatching? > > Can you please provide an example of what happens now and what you would > expect to happen? > > > > > > One of lift's design goals is to help keep the static html in the view > and > > the logic in the code, and to provide a templating system that doesn't > > interfere with visual web designers. It seems to me that it would further > > this goal if html attributes could be properly specified in the view > html. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net > Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp > Git some: http://github.com/dpp > > > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" 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/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
