I think that the main goal of (html) tables is to render tabular data;
for this reason using them to render a list is fine, but we should
avoid (if possible) to use them to render forms of type "single".
Jacopo
On Jun 1, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
Having the form layout change like you suggested would be a cool
feature. Couldn't we have a widget attribute that controls that, and
still output a table? Something like field-label-orientation="top |
bottom | reversed".
-Adrian
David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I still like the idea because these aren't really a "table" per-se, ie
no natural columns and rows, just title and field sets. Some might
want the title above the field instead of to its left. Others might
want it below or to the right (because they are crazy I guess... ;) ).
Some might want a simulation of 2 columns like I did on the
newcustomer.ftl page, and others might want the field and title to be
right next to eachother.
The point is if we do it with CSS then people can choose and lay them
out however they want, without changing the HTML that is produced.
-David
On May 31, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
I remember CSS classes like col-row, col-left, col-right, etc.
Basically and elements were replaced with and - which made no
sense at all. It
was a lot of markup to do nothing more than create a table.
Table layout is NOT evil - it is ideal for laying out columns and
rows (like forms).
CSS can be used to make tables look cool too. I'd rather see Ajax
efforts put into "smart" table headers that, when clicked, change
the sort order of the table.
-Adrian
David E Jones wrote:
I did some work on this years ago doing a "prototype" of sorts in the
newcustomer.ftl page. This is for single type forms only, as for list
and multi forms a CSS layout doesn't make sense (given the tabular
nature of that layout).
The important CSS classes are form-row, form-label, and form-field.
I don't know if this is the most elegant way to do it, but it seems
to
work pretty well and has been there for years. I believe the styles
are only in the ecommain.css file at the minute.
-David
On May 31, 2008, at 1:38 PM, Anil Patel wrote:
Hi,
There has been some momentum recently to add Ajax/Effects goodies
to HTML rendered using Screen/Form widget. I think as a part of this
effort we should consider moving away from FORM Layout using html
tables. The form layout using flexible html structures like div and
CSS can be made look COOL easily.
Is this doable?
Anybody interested in giving implementation tips?
Regards
Anil Patel
