Try #form\.title i.e. you have to escape the dot otherwise FF thinks it's for an element with class title
<... id="form" class="title" ...> at least that works for me in a very simple example: <p id="x.y">hallo</p> #x\.y { ... } just my 2 cents -Andreas On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 02:13:23AM +0000, Martin Aspeli wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm pretty sure you're not allowed dots in ids of HTML elements. At > least not when they are prefixed by 'form'. A zope.schema.TextLine in a > formlib form, for example, generates HTML like this: > > <input id="form.title" class="textType" type="text" value="Changed > title" size="20" name="form.title"/> > > In particular, we want to style the fields to look a bit more like > Plone, and we have special cases for "title" and "description" that we > want to style by ID, not class. > > However, CSS like this has no effect in Firefox or Safari: > > #form.title { > font-size: 160%; > font-family: <dtml-var headingFontFamily>; > font-weight: normal; > width: 99%; > } > #form.description { > font: 100% <dtml-var fontFamily>; > font-weight: bold; > height: 6em; > width: 99%; > } > > Not all that surprising - it could look like I'm styling a form with > class="description". > > I then hacked zope.app.form.widget's renderElement() function to look > like this: > > def renderTag(tag, **kw): > """Render the tag. Well, not all of it, as we may want to / it.""" > > if 'id' in kw: > kw['id'] = kw['id'].replace('.', '-') > > ... > > The tests in zope.app.form still pass. > > Hacky, but the alternatives are to (a) override all the widgets or (b) > at least provide custom ones only for the purpose of getting stylable > ids on various fields. renderTag() is called from a lot of places with > id=self.name. We could fix all those, too, of course. > > I would be happy to submit a patch for either the explicit check in > renderTag() or for changing all calls to this in zope.app.form. > > However, if someone has depended on the ids being with dots (possibly > not quite as likely as it may seem, since these forms are typically > auto-generated) then we may not have a decent way of deprecating that. > > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Zope3-dev mailing list > Zope3-dev@zope.org > Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/reuleaux%40web.de > > > > !DSPAM:45defabb202742984811091! _______________________________________________ Zope3-dev mailing list Zope3-dev@zope.org Unsub: http://mail.zope.org/mailman/options/zope3-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com