-- dele454 <d...@killerinstinct.co.za> wrote
(on Monday, 22 December 2008, 03:07 PM -0800):
>
> I dont know why this is so but this is the problem i am encountering. If i
> use dojo declaratively, the dojo view helper applies the dijit params as
> expected as well as the theme specified. But if i add a form element
> programmatically, though it create the form element none of the dijit
> paramters as well as the choosen theme is applied
>
> <input
> type="text"
> id="firstName"
> size="20"
> dojoType="dijit.form.ValidationTextBox"
> required="true"
> propercase="true"
> promptMessage="Enter first name."
> invalidMessage="First name is required."
> trim="true"
> onchange="userNameOnChange()"
>
> />
>
> <?= $this->validationTextBox(
> 'firstname',
> 'Start writing here...',
> array('required' => true,
> 'propercase' => true,
> 'promptMessage' => 'Enter first name',
> 'invalidMessage' => 'First name is required'),
> array('size' => '20')
>
> );?>
>
> These two textbox creation produces the view attached..
>
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p21136696/me.gif
>
> Doing this programmtically, is it correct as per the docucmentation? Is this
> the programmtic way of creating Dijit Elements?:
>
> "Programmatic usage allows the developer to decorate existing elements by
> pulling them by ID or CSS selectors and passing them to the appropriate
> object constructors in Dojo. Because no non-standard HTML attributes are
> used, pages continue to validate."
>
> Sorry but i seem very confused at the moment ;)
The parameters are mixed in client-side, by javascript, after the DOM
has been loaded. If you do a view source, you won't see them -- but if
you use a tool such as Firebug and inspect the live document, you will.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Software Architect | matt...@zend.com
Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
