Anthony, thanks for your help!
On 9 April 2013 17:57, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > All HTML helpers act like dictionaries with respect to their attributes > (and attributes beginning with "_" become HTML element attributes), so for > a string field: > > f.custom.widget.fieldname['_size']=10 > > will yield: > > <input class="string" id="test_fieldname" name="fieldname" size="10" type= > "text" value="" /> > > Anthony > > > On Tuesday, April 9, 2013 5:42:49 AM UTC-4, Nguyen Minh Tuan wrote: >> >> Hi Anthony, >> >> I try to custom view by using form.custom, >> But I have trouble in format control, Ex : I want to set textbox size to >> 10 or whatever >> Can I add more attributes to form.custom.widget.fieldname? >> >> Thanks, >> Tuan. >> >> On Sunday, October 7, 2012 9:44:57 PM UTC+7, Anthony wrote: >> >>> Depending on what you want to do on the processing side and what you >>> want to do on the display side, you probably don't have to completely >>> repeat everything. You can use form.custom.widget.fieldname in the view if >>> that is suitable. You can also use the server-side DOM to add classes, etc. >>> Another option is to make the "formstyle" argument to SQLFORM.factory a >>> callable, which can generate whatever form layout you want. >>> >>> Anthony >>> >>> On Saturday, October 6, 2012 7:31:12 PM UTC-4, Austin Cormier wrote: >>>> >>>> That definitely works and I've done it like that a couple times, but >>>> then I'm defining the input fields in two separate places. >>>> >>>> I'm thinking that maybe I have a custom view function that can take a >>>> vanilla form and then add my styling to it automatically. If I only had to >>>> do a few forms it wouldn't be a big deal but I want to try and keep the >>>> duplication as minimal as possible. >>>> >>>> On Saturday, October 6, 2012 6:18:49 PM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Just use >>>>> SQLFORM.factory<http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07#SQLFORM.factory>in >>>>> the controller to define the form fields, and then build the form >>>>> manually in the view (possibly using some of the >>>>> form.custom<http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07#Custom-forms>items). >>>>> >>>>> Anthony >>>>> >>>>> On Saturday, October 6, 2012 2:07:49 PM UTC-4, Austin Cormier wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> So I have the following customer form defined in my view for >>>>>> prototyping: >>>>>> >>>>>> form = FORM(FIELDSET(DIV(LABEL('Email Address', >>>>>> _class="control-label"), >>>>>> DIV(INPUT(_class="input-**large", >>>>>> _id="email", >>>>>> _name='email', >>>>>> requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()), >>>>>> _class="controls"), >>>>>> _class="control-group"), >>>>>> DIV(DIV(BUTTON("Add Email", _type='submit', >>>>>> _class="btn"), >>>>>> _class="controls"), >>>>>> _class="control-group"), >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _class="gebo"), >>>>>> _class="form-horizontal") >>>>>> >>>>>> The issue is that I need to define the form in the controller so that >>>>>> I can run through the form accept (don't want to do that in the views). >>>>>> Even though I'm doing this in the controller, I would like the view to >>>>>> be >>>>>> responsible for styling the form. Are there any useful techniques anyone >>>>>> knows of so that I can do this in a reusable and maintainable way across >>>>>> my >>>>>> application? >>>>>> >>>>> -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/Ecy_tG1o-3k/unsubscribe?hl=en. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
