On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:55:36PM -0700, BrendanC wrote: > Newbie qn here - I'm currently evaluating Pylons and Django with a > view to building complex CRUD data input forms - lots of data > dependent/cross field validation; densely packed data fields; multiple > tabs per form. My question may not be specific to any particular > framework, but i'd be interested in getting feedback from who has > 'been there/done that' with these frameworks. ... > I've done a lot of CRUD GUI front ends and basic web forms feel > extremely limited by comparison. Web forms seem to be pretty much > based on 1 input field per row. e.g. I have a form with several > check boxes defined for input - these could easily fit on a single row > (vs one row for each check box). ... > Maybe I'm tilting at windmills here and should just 'go with the > flow' - however I'd be interested in hearing feedback from others on > this. Are there any specific features of Pylons that improve over this > default layout approach?
You can always write your form HTML by hand (or with custom Mako defs) and have any layout you like, then handle the form on the server side with FormEncode + htmlfill. Marius Gedminas -- The *REAL* Y2K is the year 2048.
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