On Apr 22, 2012, at 9:30 PM, Anthony wrote:
> This keeps coming up. Note, it's actually in the book:
> http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/5#HTML-helpers
>
> Notice that helper attributes are passed as keyword arguments to the helper.
> In some cases, however, attribute names include special characters that are
> not allowed in Python identifiers (e.g., hyphens) and therefore cannot be
> used as keyword argument names. For example:
>
> DIV('text', _data-role='collapsible')
> will not work because "_data-role" includes a hyphen, which will produce a
> Python syntax error.
>
> In such cases, you can instead pass the attributes as a dictionary and make
> use of Python's ** function arguments notation, which map a dictionary of
> (key:value) pairs into a set of keyword arguments:
>
> >>> print DIV('text', **{'_data-role': 'collapsible'})
> <div data-role="collapsible">text</div>
It's worth noting that this is all (aside from web2py's underscore convention
for passing attributes) straightforward Python.
> On Monday, April 23, 2012 12:23:50 AM UTC-4, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2012, at 9:09 PM, pbreit wrote:
>> How can I make this <a> tag with A()?
>>
>> <a class="btn" data-toggle="modal" href="#myModal" >Launch Modal</a>
>
> I'd try something like A('Launch Modal', **{ '_class' : 'btn', '_data-toggle'
> : 'modal', '_href' : '#myModal'})
>
