Sorry, I forgot this doesn't work with form.custom.begin, which is an XML
object rather than an HTML helper (because it includes only the opening
form tag). Instead, you could do this:
{{=XML(form.custom.begin.replace('>', ' class="myclass">'))}}
but it's probably more straightforward to just manually code the HTML:
<form action="" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" class="myclass">
Anthony
On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 6:38:42 PM UTC-5, Bhaskar Ramachandran
wrote:
>
> Hi Anthony,
>
> I tried that earlier also but that code didn't seem to work. I say so
> because my html page still has that login form on the left side of the
> navigation bar and looking at the source code, i see the following:
> <form action="" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
> No class is added.
> If I replace the custom form with a hard coded form with class name in the
> <form class= ...." then i am able to get the form in the right way.
> So, it looks like somehow those statements to set class name are
> overridden by something else. I have these statements after the custom
> begin and custom end block in my view file so this is the last thing that
> is done to the form before it is rendered.
>
> I tried both your statements below and both of them didn't do anything. If
> you could also teach me how i can go and debug this situation, ( by looking
> at the form object in real time if possible to see how it gets modified
> during web2py execution on that page) it will help me in the long run...
>
> Thanks!
> -Bhaskar
>
>
> On Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:09:48 AM UTC-6, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> form['_class'] = 'myclass'
>>
>> or
>>
>> form.update(_class='myclass')
>>
>> A form is an HTML helper object, just like any other HTML helper, so the
>> usual rules apply:
>> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/05#HTML-helpers
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:33:32 PM UTC-5, Bhaskar Ramachandran
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> As listed in the "view" code below, i am trying to customize the form
>>> returned by auth.login(). Note that i have in my controller "return
>>> dict(form=auth.login()). Then in the view code pasted below i am
>>> customizing the login form.
>>> It seems to work fine except that i am unable to assign a class name to
>>> this form. So my question is " How to set the class name for a form object
>>> ?. There are posts in the mailing list to specify class name for elements
>>> within the form object but i couldn't find one that explains how the class
>>> name for the form object itself can be assinged.
>>> Please let me know if my question needs more explanation. Thank you.
>>> {{
>>> if not auth.is_logged_in() :
>>> if not 'register' in auth.settings.
>>> actions_disabled:
>>> form.add_button(T('Register'),URL(
>>> args='register'),_class='btn')
>>> pass
>>> if not 'request_reset_password' inauth
>>> .settings.actions_disabled:
>>> form.add_button(T('Lost Password'),
>>> URL(args='request_reset_password'),_class='btn')
>>> pass
>>> }}
>>>
>>> {{=form.custom.begin}}
>>> <a href=
>>> "/myscienceapp/default/register?_next=/default/index" style="margin-right:
>>> 10px">Sign Up</a>
>>> <div class="input-append">
>>> <input id="user_username"
>>> class="input-small" style="margin-right: 5px; border-radius: 5px 5px 5px
>>> 5px;" type="text" name="email" placeholder="Email"/>
>>> <input id="user_password" class="input-small"style
>>> ="margin-right: 2px; border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;" type="password"name
>>> ="password" placeholder="Password"/>
>>> <input class="btn btn-primary"
>>> style="margin-right:
>>> 5px; margin-bottom: 0px;border-radius: 5px 5px 5px 5px;" size="5" type=
>>> "submit" name="commit" value="Go!" />
>>> <input id="user_remember_me"
>>> style="margin-right:
>>> 5px; margin-bottom: 16px;" type="checkbox" name="remember" value="1" />
>>> <label class="string optional"
>>> style="margin-right:
>>> 10px;" for="user_remember_me">Remember me</label>
>>> <a href="/users/sign_up" style="margin-right:
>>> 1px">Forgot?</a>
>>> </div>
>>> {{=form.custom.end}}
>>> <!--Using the command below,i am trying to set the class name for
>>> the form.I was unable to do it both directly as well as using the parent()
>>> method.. -->
>>> {{form.element('div').parent['_class']='navbar-form pull-right
>>> form-inline'}}
>>>
>>> {{pass}}
>>>
>>>
>>>
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