If you want to add the error message within the form, you could do
something like:
form.elements('input[name=myfield]',
replace=lambda input: DIV(input, error_message_element, _class
='error_wrapper'))
Anthony
On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 12:10:03 PM UTC-4, mweissen wrote:
>
> Ok, let's try CSS.
> My idea was to learn more about form.elements
>
> What would be the best way to add a special error message?
>
> Thank you, Martin
>
> 2015-04-14 17:39 GMT+02:00 Anthony <[email protected]>:
>
>> You can also suppress the default error display and add your own.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 11:39:06 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote:
>>>
>>> The error_wrapper div is added when the form is serialized into HTML, so
>>> it is not in the DOM at that point. Can you just use CSS to handle the
>>> formatting you need?
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 8:31:41 AM UTC-4, mweissen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What I want to do:
>>>> I need an "error_wrapper", which takes 90% of the width of the form.
>>>>
>>>> Parts of my code:
>>>>
>>>> if form.process(onvalidation=extracheck).accepted:
>>>> ... works as expected ....
>>>>
>>>> def extracheck(form):
>>>> # some actions ... works as expected ....
>>>> print form.elements('div', _class="error_wrapper")
>>>> print form.elements('.error_wrapper')
>>>> # and some other variants
>>>>
>>>> All lists are empty - what is wrong?
>>>> Regards, Martin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>
>
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