I agree. I have not implemented but I was planning to add this feature. 

On Tuesday, 9 September 2014 03:44:30 UTC-5, Leonel Câmara wrote:
>
> This is the corresponding JS one optimized for bootstrap 3:
>>
>>     jform.widgets['text'] = function(field) { return 
>> jform.tag('textarea',{'name':field.name
>> ,'class':'form-control'})(field.value); }
>>
>
> Massimo that looks good, however in SQLFORM I can change the textwidget in 
> a very specific way - I can change it for a single field on a single table 
> on a single controller, changing widgets in jform like this wouldn't work 
> because you would change the text widget for all jforms being rendered in 
> that webpage. 
>
> Maybe you want to change the widget for just that one form and leave the 
> others unchanged. Sometimes, you do want to change your textwidgets 
> application wide but sometimes you don't. So things get a little more 
> complicated.  
>
> There needs to be some way to define context for jform where you can 
> customize just one single form. Basically JForm would need to have a 
> dictionary of table or even form specific widgets where you could do 
> something like.
>
> jform.widgets.forms[myformid]['text'] = function(field) { return 
> jform.tag('textarea',{'name':field.name
> ,'class':'form-control'})(field.value); }
> jform.widgets.tables[tablename]['text'] = function(field) { return 
> jform.tag('textarea',{'name':field.name
> ,'class':'form-control'})(field.value); }
>
> So things do start to get messy. This solution, of course, isn't ideal if 
> you are building a single page app as this context you're creating doesn't 
> get automatically cleaned every call like it happens on the server side 
> with SQLFORM so then you start to get strange interactions and bugs. Hence 
> we have to figure out a smarter way to do it where the context is really 
> available for just that one form and it goes away with it.
>
>
>

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