Hi, How about client-side validation? I have the very same problem and I've managed to solve it by using theme simple but then client-side validation is gone. Anybody succeeded using side-by-side fields without losing the client-side validation? Thanks Oscar
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Rob Hills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > > Richard M wrote: > > > Bump. Does anybody have any insight/input at all? > > > > > > Richard M wrote: > > > > > > > I have finally accepted the orientation towards left-aligned labels > > > over > > > form fields - and find I do like it can see its easier for a user to > > > take > > > in the form visually. Plus the style sheets allow the window to be > > > resized > > > without breaking visually. CSS and visual presentation is not my > > > forte, > > > but I'm trying to do this "right" and get better at it. > > > > > > But occasionally there are times you need side-by-side fields - or the > > > form just gets too long. Appfuse does this in a few places - such as > > > First > > > and Last name on the userForm.jsp and signup.jsp pages. > > > BTW, I am using Appfuse 2.0.1 with Struts2 and Hibernate. It seems to > > > do > > > this by overriding the theme to "xhtml" from "css_xhtml". Then you put > > > your own list item tags around the two or three fields you want on the > > > same line. Like this: > > > > > > <li> > > > <div> > > > <div class="left"> > > > <s:textfield key="user.firstName" theme="xhtml" > > > required="true" cssClass="text medium"/> > > > </div> > > > <div> > > > <s:textfield key="user.lastName" theme="xhtml" > > > required="true" cssClass="text medium"/> > > > </div> > > > </div> > > > </li> > > > > > > > > Sorry to come in so late on this one, but when I had to do this, I put > my own <li></li> around the fields I had to put side-by-side and then set > theme="simple" for each field inside it. I also had to create one or two > CSS classes to tidy up a couple of frayed edges for some field types (eg > cssClass="checkbox" is one I know I had to do) but that wasn't too hard to > do using Firebug to guide me. > > HTH, > > Rob Hills > Waikiki, Western Australia > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
