On 2 Jan 2009, at 14:48, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> if you are offended by HTML questions on this list, please feel free > to flame me off list. > > I would like to display a boolean value in my #index view as a > checkbox that is checked when true and blank when not true. Is > there some markup that can do this? Is it "legal" to embed an > <input type="checkbox"> tag outside the context of a form? Even if > it's "legal", is it considered bad practice? > w3c validator doesn't seem to mind. Fred > I've poked around a little looking to see what others have done, and > I could embed a checkmark image in my page, or I could embed the > proper Unicode code for a checkmark, and hope that the browser has a > font installed with that character, but it seems to me that the > browser must already know how to display a checkmark, and in the > principle of DRY, I should be able to reuse it :-) > > --wpd > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
