It is there already

form.element(_type='submit')['_style']="color:white; background-
color:blue; font-weight:bold"

It only finds the first matching element.

On Oct 11, 1:16 pm, "mr.freeze" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Good point - and addresses the original post (as it could have been more
> >simply done this way);
>
> Not technically since this would affect everything inside the form and
> not just the submit button.  What about a member function 'find' added
> to XmlComponent or DIV (which I think most helpers inherit from) that
> allows you to traverse the inner components and return the matching
> components for given criteria.  The pseudo-code might look like this:
>
> submit = form.components.find(XML.attribute("type")=="submit")[0]
> submit['_style'] = "color:white; background-color:blue; font-
> weight:bold"
>
> On Oct 11, 12:29 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:04 AM, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I do not think you cannot use decorators this way.
>
> > double negatives.... not sure what you intended to say (but logical analysis
> > says "... think you can use decorators this way...");
>
> > > But I remind you crud.create is a function that returns  SQLFORM which
> > > is a FORM which is a heper as any other helper. Therefore you can do:
>
> > > form = crud.create(...)
> > > form['_style']="color:white; background-color:blue; font-weight:bold"
>
> > Good point - and addresses the original post (as it could have been more
> > simply done this way);
>
> > Regardless, then
>
> > @style( color='white', background-color='blue', font-weight='bold')
> > form = crud.create(...)
>
> > would still be a readable thing (and just trivial to implement);
>
> > Alternatively, form.style( ...same kinds of parameters....)   could be used;
>
> > Anyway, this is about readability, and ease of infding this stuff (as this
> > post shows);
>
> > If there were a member function to FORM to set style, people who not have to
> > stumble upon it.
>
> > Thoughts?
>
> > > On Oct 11, 10:47 am, Web2py-SuperFan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > I really like that suggestion, would be much cleaner code and easier
> > > > to configure different styles that have meaning by variable name
>
> > > > On Oct 10, 9:47 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > I wonder if we could encapsulate, simplify this with a decorator,
> > > something
> > > > > like:
>
> > > > > @button( color='white', background='blue', font='bold' )
> > > > > form = crud.create(...)
>
> > > > > Something like this could be useful for something like
>
> > > > > @button( my_admin_style )
> > > > > form = crud.create(....)
>
> > > > > @button( my_warning_style )
> > > > > form = ...
>
> > > > > .... just thinking out loud....
>
> > > > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Web2py-SuperFan <[email protected]
> > > >wrote:
>
> > > > > > took me a while to dig up the answer/solution, maybe can save 
> > > > > > someone
> > > > > > else some time
>
> > > > > >    form = crud.create(...)
> > > > > >    form=DIV(
> > > > > >      form,
> > > > > >      SCRIPT('''$(document).ready(function() {
> > > > > >      $("input[type=submit]").val("Share");
> > > > > >      });'''),
> > > > > >      SCRIPT('''$(document).ready(function() {
> > > > > >      $("input[type=submit]").css({
> > > > > >      color:'white',
> > > > > >      background:'blue',
> > > > > >      font: 'bold'});
> > > > > >      });'''),
> > > > > >       )
>
> > > > > >     return dict(form=form)- Hide quoted text -
>
> > > > > - Show quoted text -
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