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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