I want a hidden input with a custom attribute (e.g.: data-geo) to be stored in the database upon form validation.
<input name="latitude" data-geo="lat" style="display:none"> How can I achieve this ? 1. Adding raw html to a custom form, although custom forms have a lot of drawbacks in web2py 2. Messing with DOM. At your own risks. 3. SQLFORM "hidden" attribute ? Well no. I cannot set the data-geo attribute there. SQLFORM allows us to add hidden fields to a form using a dict()-based syntax (cf. http://www.web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/07/forms-and-validators#Hidden-fields ) I think this is very minimalistic, as it only allows us to set a name and value to hidden inputs. Shouldn't "hidden fields" be a list of fields instead of a dictionary ? What if we could do something like this : form = SQLFORM(db.table, hidden=[db.table[field] for field in ['this_one', 'that_one']]) or even: form = SQLFORM(db.table, hidden=['this_one', 'that_one']) The result here would be pretty much the same as the previous syntax, but with the new syntax we could also do: form = SQLFORM(db.table, hidden=[Field('latitude', widget=lambda k,v: SQLFORM.widgets.string.widget(k,v, **{'_data-geo':'lat'})]) But then... I guess going through the trouble of redefining a Field for the purpose of hiding it seems a bit tedious. DOM modification probably takes the same amount of time. Perhaps giving a standard name to the <div> that holds hidden fields would help in that regard ? Maybe something like : <div id="table_hidden_field"> But as far as I know, this <div> isn't always appended to a form (for instance FORM and SQLFORM.factory don't have it). Any thought on the matter ? -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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/d/optout.
