#6877: "form.label_for tag" should apply "label_suffix"
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Reporter: David Piccione <run4yourli...@gmail.com> | Owner:
nobody
Status: new | Milestone:
Component: Forms | Version:
SVN
Resolution: | Keywords:
label_tag, label_suffix
Stage: Design decision needed | Has_patch:
1
Needs_docs: 1 | Needs_tests:
1
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Comment (by jsdalton):
I'm not sure it's a bug either, but it's a behavioral inconsistency that
does cause real problems:
* When rendering an entire form, the label_suffix appears *within* the
label element. When you use label_tag and add a suffix by hand in the
template, the suffix appears *after* the label element. This can cause
problems on the design side. For example, if you have a style that adds an
asterisk at the end of a label, the label will appear after the suffix
when rendering the whole form and before the suffix when rendering the
label via label_tag.
* There's logic related to the handing of the label_suffix in the
_html_output() method of a Form that suppresses the suffix if the last
char of the label is in ':?.!'. You lose that feature if you use
label_tag.
To me the benefit of these features related to form field rendering is
that you can drop down into a form and easily tweak a few things by hand
if for some the default rendering isn't working for you. This one minor
inconsistency has actually prevented me from being able to do that on
several projects, so minor as it is it has real implications.
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