Many thanks Eric I discovered the issue with editing fields in the same tiddler.
I do not really want to do that anyway. Was just playing around. Thanks for pointing me to the solution. On Fri, 3 Jul 2020, 22:21 Eric Shulman, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, July 3, 2020 at 2:04:59 PM UTC-7, Rob Jopling wrote: >> >> A rookie problem I expect, but why are the fields are not displaying as i >> expected. >> I would like the contents of field1 to appear to the right of the text >> field1 with field2 on the next line, etc >> And why is field1 edit box displaying bigger than the one for field2? >> > > You forgot to use "/> at the end of each <$edit-text ... /> widget. > You also need to put a <br> following each, so that they will be on > separate lines. > > Thus: > this is field1: <$edit-text field="field1"/><br> > this is field2: <$edit-text field="field2"/><br> > > Note: the above will still have a problem: due to the TWCore refresh > handling, > you can't use <$edit-text> to modify a field in the same tiddler as the > edit field. > What happens is that as soon as you type a character into the edit edit, > the > tiddler it is contained in is automatically refreshed, and the edit field > loses > the input focus. The result is that you can only enter one letter at a > time. > > This was discussed recently here: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/n5zItAWIZFw > and I provided a work-around solution: > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/n5zItAWIZFw/T4ZHA5mTAAAJ > that involves using a temporary tiddler to hold the input while you type, > and then > you press an "ok" button to copy that input into the desired "target" > field. > > -e > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0365c5da-f28e-4f57-835e-7e08956326afo%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0365c5da-f28e-4f57-835e-7e08956326afo%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAFwdqKGSN08c1Z1peac9fVhFsTmf5XUFx1O8nHcF112MLcu9yw%40mail.gmail.com.
