On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:44 PM, jlist9 <[email protected]> wrote: > This is not strictly a web.py question. I'd like to know if web.py users > have any recommended way of implementing simple dialog boxes, for example, > confirmation for deletion. One way I can think of is to have a dedicated > page/template that shows some text and two buttons, and use hidden fields > to indicate delete action and the ID of the object to delete. This will work > but it doesn't look very good. A popup dialog box would look much nicer. > I suppose this involves an AJAX invocation. Any suggestions/sample > code/links/library recommendations?
jQuery UI[1] has a ready to use dialog control. You can also try to do it like this: 1. disable default action on the delete button 2. make a div and populate it with the form (you can use AJAX call to retrieve a pre-styled HTML for this) 3. the form in the dialog is fully armed. It has a button called "confirm" but it actually does the same thing as the non-AJAX form in your regular page I've never liked popup boxes, though. It's better to simply make deletion a little harder to do. For instance, if you have edit and delete buttons, put them on opposite sides of the item, so that edit is easier to click. Or make deletion a two-step procedure (checkbox + click). [1] http://jqueryui.com/ -- Branko Vukelić http://foxbunny.tumblr.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/16889...@n04/ http://www.twitter.com/foxbunny http://github.com/foxbunny -- 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.
