Josh:
I found the problem to be a typo in my code (html in a "here document").
I was passing an unterminated <input> element. It was missing the '/>'
I fixed that and things starting working fine. Thanks.
Steve
P.S. -- In case you are curious, here are the details of exactly what
happened. There was a peculiar transformation of the html occurring,
and below is what I observed:
Following is the buggy code fragment. The '==>' points to the
offending line. Note that after processing, the <input> tag
has been truncated. The attributes that should be with the
<input> tag have been generously included with the </td>
element. [This was tough to discover because there was no
error indication other than text entry fields that were not
as wide as I wanted them.]
Before:
<td style="border: none; width: auto;">
<input name="$form_element_name" type="text"
==> style="some style stuff"
</td>
</td>
<td style="some style stuff">
$req
</td>
After
<td style="border: none; width: auto;">
==> <input value="1" >
==> </td style="some style stuff" name="serial_port-52-serial_port_id" type="text">
<td style="some style stuff">
<b>*</b>
</td>
This is the (good) corrected code fragment before and after ASP
processing. You will notice it is part of a table, which has
been pruned for clarity). The '==>' points to the corrected
line:
Before:
<td style="border: none; width: auto;">
<input name="$form_element_name" type="text"
==> style="some style stuff" />
</td>
</td>
<td style="some style stuff">
$req
</td>
After:
<td style="border: none; width: auto;">
<input value="1" style="some style stuff"
==> name="serial_port-105-serial_port_id" type="text" />
</td>
<td style="some style stuff">
<b>*</b>
</td>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Chamas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 1:51 AM
> To: Stephen Bardsley
> Cc: Apache::ASP Mailing List
> Subject: Re: FillInForm and input field style
>
>
> Stephen Bardsley wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I am experiencing an odd behavior with some form input fields.
> > The input elements have a style attribute defined to control the
> > width of the field, but it seems to be ignored. I am using
> > FillInForm and I was wondering if there is something special I
> > need to consider to ensure the specified width is maintained.
> >
>
> So what does the tag look like in your script, & what does it
> look like afterwards in the HTML output?
>
> HTML::FillInForm is what is used to do the form filling, so you
> can delve in there to find out why it is parsing things wrong
> for you, if you do not get any other answer.
>
> If this is merely a matter of using styles, when you might use
> instead SIZE & MAXLENGTH attributes, you should look into using
> those instead.
>
> Regards,
>
> Josh
>
>
>
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