Hi Anthony, I try to custom view by using form.custom, But I have trouble in format control, Ex : I want to set textbox size to 10 or whatever Can I add more attributes to form.custom.widget.fieldname? Thanks, Tuan.
On Sunday, October 7, 2012 9:44:57 PM UTC+7, Anthony wrote: > Depending on what you want to do on the processing side and what you want > to do on the display side, you probably don't have to completely repeat > everything. You can use form.custom.widget.fieldname in the view if that is > suitable. You can also use the server-side DOM to add classes, etc. Another > option is to make the "formstyle" argument to SQLFORM.factory a callable, > which can generate whatever form layout you want. > > Anthony > > On Saturday, October 6, 2012 7:31:12 PM UTC-4, Austin Cormier wrote: >> >> That definitely works and I've done it like that a couple times, but then >> I'm defining the input fields in two separate places. >> >> I'm thinking that maybe I have a custom view function that can take a >> vanilla form and then add my styling to it automatically. If I only had to >> do a few forms it wouldn't be a big deal but I want to try and keep the >> duplication as minimal as possible. >> >> On Saturday, October 6, 2012 6:18:49 PM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: >>> >>> Just use >>> SQLFORM.factory<http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07#SQLFORM.factory>in >>> the controller to define the form fields, and then build the form >>> manually in the view (possibly using some of the >>> form.custom<http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07#Custom-forms>items). >>> >>> Anthony >>> >>> On Saturday, October 6, 2012 2:07:49 PM UTC-4, Austin Cormier wrote: >>>> >>>> So I have the following customer form defined in my view for >>>> prototyping: >>>> >>>> form = FORM(FIELDSET(DIV(LABEL('Email Address', >>>> _class="control-label"), >>>> DIV(INPUT(_class="input-large", _id="email", >>>> _name='email', >>>> requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()), >>>> _class="controls"), >>>> _class="control-group"), >>>> DIV(DIV(BUTTON("Add Email", _type='submit', >>>> _class="btn"), >>>> _class="controls"), >>>> _class="control-group"), >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _class="gebo"), >>>> _class="form-horizontal") >>>> >>>> The issue is that I need to define the form in the controller so that I >>>> can run through the form accept (don't want to do that in the views). >>>> Even >>>> though I'm doing this in the controller, I would like the view to be >>>> responsible for styling the form. Are there any useful techniques anyone >>>> knows of so that I can do this in a reusable and maintainable way across >>>> my >>>> application? >>>> >>> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
