Thanks Jorge - that works well... next question
then is if there is any quick way to alert a user
as to when there is an error anywhere in a form;
a message could then be displayed alterting him
to the fact (say, at the top of the form) and that
he should look for field/s with the "!!" mark and
make corrections as needed.
Thanks
Derek
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004/09/03 10:20:28 AM >>>
On 03.09.2004 08:41, Derek Hohls wrote:
> The current forms stylesheets supplied with Cocoon
> work very well for most purposes... however, I now
> have a quite crowded form where space is at a
> premium. Ideally I would only like to have one "hint"
> symbol next to each field ie. if the field is required it
> will have a "*". But if the user neglects to fill in that
> field, and the form is redisplayed, there is a "!!" and "*"
> This is actually redundant and also causes the form field
> alignments to go out of sync.
>
> If anyone knows of a way to ONLY display the validation
> symbol and NOT the required symbol as well, please
> let me know.
That's really easy :)
In forms-field-styling.xsl there is the following template:
<!--+
| Common stuff like fi:validation-message, @required.
+-->
<xsl:template match="fi:*" mode="common">
<!-- validation message -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="fi:validation-message"/>
<!-- required mark -->
<xsl:if test="@required='true'">
<span class="forms-field-required"> * </span>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
As you can see easily it results in both the ! and the *. If you import
this stylesheet (or forms-samples-styling, which imports the
forms-field-styling) you can overload the template, e.g. with the
following:
<xsl:template match="fi:*" mode="common">
<xsl:variable name="validation-message">
<xsl:apply-templates select="fi:validation-message"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:copy-of select="$validation-message"/>
<xsl:if test="@required='true' and
not(normalize-space($validation-message))">
<span class="forms-field-required"> * </span>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
Joerg
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