If you're using SQLFORM, I did come up with a cute little trick that uses a lambda to add placeholders to a custom formstyle definition.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/VSr2oLNnozg/jlbbYPaAoiMJ -- Joe On Thursday, June 23, 2011 7:24:44 AM UTC-7, Carl Hunter Roach wrote: > > I'm using custom forms in my views using this format: > {{=form.custom.widget.first_name}} > > I'd like to use HTML's placeholder attribute to input tags: e.g., > <input type="text" placeholder="first name" /> > > Today: what are the ways to enable this? Obviously happy to drop the > {{=form.custom.widget.first_name}} format and use something else. > > Tomorrow: might it be a good idea to add placeholder attribute to > db.Field() in a similar fashion to how 'label' has already been added? -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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/d/optout.

