On item 2, you should be using css. give the "string" class a width in ems or %. Stylize the font by setting font-size: 85%; or you can set it to a certain number of ems or pt.
On Feb 5, 12:20 pm, sveinh <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Massimo > > Your hint pointed me in the right direction. It had a few topos, > which I correct below. > > {{if not auth.user and not request.function=='user':}} > {{form=auth.login(next=URL(r=request, > args=request.args))}} > {{pass}} > > This displays the default render of the login form. Great. > > However, I would like to customise the render of the form to display a > different layout of the form if the user is not logged in. I guess I > could use custom form for this. Example: > > {{form=auth.login(next=URL(r=request, > args=request.args))}} > {{=form.custom.begin}} > {{=form.custom.label.username}}: > {{=form.custom.widget.username}} > {{=form.custom.label.password}}: > {{=form.custom.widget.password}} > Remember me: <input type="checkbox" > name="remember" > id="auth_user_remember" class="checkbox" /> > {{=form.custom.submit}} > {{=form.custom.end}} > > My two questions are: > > 1) The "remember" checkbox are not part of the form.custom.widget, > thus in the example above, I wrote the standard html out instead of > using the =form.custom... function. Is this standard behaviour? Or > should I expect the "remember" widget to be present? > > 2) I would like to display smaller sized version of the username and > password fields as opposed to the standard size of the input fields. > Would this be possible using the custom.form.something='size="8"', or > would I have to make a custom version of the example above like this: > > {{form=auth.login(next=URL(r=request, > args=request.args))}} > {{=form.custom.begin}} > <input class="string" id="auth_user_username" > name="username" > type="text" size="8" value="" /> > <input class="password" > id="auth_user_password" name="password" > type="password" size="8" value="" /> > Remember: <input type="checkbox" > name="remember" > id="auth_user_remember" class="checkbox" /> > {{=form.custom.submit}} > {{=form.custom.end}} > > Again, thanks for the swift replies by this group! > > -sveinh > > On Feb 5, 3:33 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > in layout.html > > > {{if not auth.user and not request.function=='user':}} > > {{=atuh.login(next=URL(r=request,args=args))}} > > {{pass}} > > > On Feb 5, 3:40 am, sveinh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all > > > > I would like to include a username+pw field and login button on all > > > pages if the user is not already logged in. I would like to use the > > > built-in functions of web2py to validate the login. > > > > What would be the best approach for this? I tried to create the fields > > > (as default/user/login would produce) in template.html and set the > > > form post action to default/user/login. This did no work. I guess > > > there are some hidden fields which are not matched correctly in the > > > user/login action which does not compute, and the user/login is > > > displayed as if the user/login action was called for the first time. > > > > Thanks! > > > > -sveinh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
