If you make a view for your form this will help you control it. If you use FORM(...) instead of SQLFORM() this will not generate tables.
See http://mdp.cti.depaul.edu/examples/static/cookbook.pdf Then you will need to name the fields in your form, and update the data record - since you have one field, this is not too bad. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:36 PM, murray3 <[email protected]> wrote: > > thanks Yarko for that, it works, I was approaching this from the view, > not the controller. > one more thing I am stuck with, how do I modify the SQLFORM formatting > to only have > a textarea - i.e. no table, no labels, just textarea and submit? > chris > > On Feb 23, 5:03 am, Yarko Tymciurak <[email protected]> wrote: > > ugh...never write email before dinner: > > > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Yarko Tymciurak <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Something like this works - but you may not want to define your own > > > > you may _want_ to define your own template.... > > > > > > > > > template: > > > > > in models/db.py: > > > db.define_table('comment', > > > SQLField( 'comment','text', length=256 )) > > > > > then in controllers/default.py: > > > > > def myform(): > > > form=SQLFORM(db.comment, _style='width:100%') # this gets > > > inserted in the <form.... > > > if form.accepts(request.vars, session): > > > response.flash='form accepted' > > > elif form.errors: > > > response.flash='form has errors' > > > return dict(form=form) > > > > > Regards, > > > Yarko > > > > > On Feb 22, 5:50 pm, murray3 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have been enjoying the flexibiity of web2py, and my app idea is > > > > progressing > > > > well, it is something I have been contemplating for a long time and I > > > > will release it > > > > when I get it to a suitable stage as to take it further it needs to > be > > > > open source. > > > > > > So with that in mind, I would like to solve my most irritating issue > > > > with which I am obviously > > > > missing something even trying the code offered up in these > > > > discussions! > > > > > > I want a sqlform with just a textarea and submit button but I want > the > > > > textarea to be > > > > style="width: 100%;" easy, but unfortunatley my attempts are not > > > > updating the db. > > > > > > Any help most appreciated . > > > > chrism > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" 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/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
