>From my experience, not wrapping the content in a form tag makes it more flexible to add inputs within a template. If you wanted to put a couple of different buttons inline, for instance, it's easier to just code them up in the template. You can use a fieldset and legend if it makes sense to you, or skip it.
If rendering is an issue, I recommend subclassing class Form and defining your own render method. I consider one of the greatest assets of web.py is that it's small enough to read the code and actually understand everything that's going on. It's pretty cool that the render method for forms is less than 20 lines long. It's small enough that you can use it as a starting point for a new render method and not feel like you need to remove unneeded stuff first. Cheers! Justin On Feb 19, 7:49 am, Daniel Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > While reading the documentation for web.py I noticed that the form.py > module renders forms in a table, which is not semantic and doesn't > adhere to W3C standards. The proper structure of a form is as follows: > > <pre> > <form action="$url" method="GET|POST" name="foo"> > <fieldset> > <legend>insert form section header here</legend> > insert your form inputs and buttons here > </fieldset> > </form> > </pre> > > If you don't mind my asking, why were tables chosen? They don't follow > the proper structure of a form... as far as I could tell from the > source, the form element isn't used at all; I'm surprised the forms > even function. > > I'm somewhat new to web.py and I enjoy it so far, but this sort of > rendering bugged me. If you want, I could see about modifying form.py > to adhere to W3C standards. In its current form (no pun intended :P), > it will not validate with w3's validator, and may not render properly > in all browsers. > > My apologies if the code example I provided doesn't display properly; > there isn't a preview function here at Google Groups. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web.py" 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/webpy?hl=en.
