Thanks again for the info.

I guess I still do not get it though if I set my formstyle to table3cols
would'nt my form at least be laid out like:

Name Address City
State

Or am I not looking at this correctly?


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Your best bet is to look at how the built-in ones work, starting here:
> https://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/gluon/sqlhtml.py#752. Copy
> the one of those that is closest to what you want and modify it as
> necessary.
>
> def myformstyle():
>     [custom code here]
>
> form = SQLFORM(..., formstyle=myformstyle)
>
> Anthony
>
>
> On Monday, June 24, 2013 10:07:49 AM UTC-4, Tom Russell wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the responses.
>>
>> The formstyle looks interesting but I cannot make heads or tails out of
>> the way to use it. Are there any examples of this some place?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Anthony <abas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I assume that means you are relying on a generic view to display your
>>> table. If so, you can instead create a non-generic view (which you should
>>> probably do anyway), or you can build the form DOM on the server using
>>> web2py HTML helpers (probably not the way to go). The custom formstyle
>>> option also does not require any HTML coding.
>>>
>>> Anthony
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, June 24, 2013 9:35:31 AM UTC-4, Tom Russell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the response. So now I am really confused because I have no
>>>> idea where to put this code if I am using a SQLFORM.factory?
>>>>
>>>> Basically I just want to add row fluid to make the layout a little
>>>> easier to navigate. I do not have a html file to set this code in for this
>>>> form.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Anthony <abas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://web2py.com/books/**defaul**t/chapter/29/07#Custom-**forms<http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07#Custom-forms>
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think it's in the book yet, but you can also create a custom
>>>>> formstyle if you need to use the layout in multiple places:
>>>>> https://groups.google.****com/d/msg/web2py/QmoRmapiOwA/**t**
>>>>> ZqeEbii6QgJ<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/QmoRmapiOwA/tZqeEbii6QgJ>
>>>>>
>>>>> Anthony
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, June 24, 2013 8:53:16 AM UTC-4, Tom Russell wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a SQLForm and use the formset DIV for it but its not what I
>>>>>> really want. Rather than having just one column with all of the fields
>>>>>> required to be filled out, how do I set it so its like 3-4 columns?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For example:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Name      Address      City      State
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Instead of:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Name
>>>>>> Address
>>>>>> City
>>>>>> State
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
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