On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 12:36 -0700, Jeff Dairiki wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 05:41:12PM +0200, Damien Baty wrote:
> > 
> > The current 'deform.widget.SelectWidget' cannot render any <optgroup>
> > HTML tag in <select> fields. Has anyone written their own widget that
> > offers this? I added this feature in a fork for now
> > (https://github.com/dbaty/deform/commit/67c265c560dad23c76a4994610436b0caff784e2)
> > but would love to hear about the syntax before I send the pull request,
> > if anyone has done something similar. The wording of the documentation
> > can also certainly be improved (even though I think the 'deformdemo'
> > application -- where I plan to add an example -- will be clearer than
> > the API documentation).
> 
> Here's my version:
> 
>   http://pastebin.com/D9302aYG
>   http://pastebin.com/6QpEGnUG
> 
> Personally, I think your no_in_optgroup_marker is overly verbose.
> In my code, if any item in the values list is a string pair, it is a
> plain option, if it is a pair whose second element is a non-string,
> then it is an optgroup.
> 
> If you do want to be very explicit about which items are option groups
> and which are plain options, I'd rather see it the other way around,
> with the option groups explicitly marked:
> 
> widget = SelectWidget(
>     values = [
>         ('normal', 'A plain option'),
>         OptGroup('Group Label',
>                  ('val', 'A grouped option'),
>                  ('val2', 'Another grouped option'),
>                 ),
>         ],
>     )
> 
> If one did the above, then you wouldn't really need the ``optgroup``
> option.
> 
> 
> Also, for me, (though I would guess not for most others,) it is
> important to be able to control the option label and long label
> independently.  E.g. I generate something like
> 
>   <optgroup label="Foo">
>     <option value="foo/bar" label="Bar">Bar (Foo)</option>
>   </optgroup>
> 
> The short label ("Bar") is displayed by browser which support
> <optgroup>, while the long label ("Bar (Foo)") is displayed in
> old/bizarre browsers.

I'd be fine with either of these (lists or OptGroup wrapper) going in to
the mainline.

- C


> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff
> 


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