I think you must be right Hector, but I was wondering if there was
something I was missing. I know that you could adjust the decorators
manually, but that would be a rather involved process -- I was hoping
there was a way to do it centrally such as setElementsBelongTo().
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Hector Virgen <djvir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This seems like a bug. I would think that setElementBelongsTo() would affect
> all generated IDs.
>
> --
> Hector
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Eugene Morgan
> <eugenemorganrea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the tip, but it doesn't quite do what I'm looking for ...
>> it looks like the id attributes of the <dd> and <dt> tags are
>> generated based on the element's name rather than its id. So when I
>> manually change the element's id the <dd> and <dt> id's are not
>> affected.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Fred Jiles <fredji...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Can you possible use the setAttribute method to set the id manually?
>> >
>> > $element->setAttrib('id', 'instance1_text')
>> >
>> > Just append the id with something.
>> > Fred
>> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Jonathan Maron
>> > <jonathan.a.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello Eugene and others
>> >>
>> >> I have a similar issue when I place multiple navigation elements
>> >> (Zend_Navigation) on to one page. Also in this case, I get multiple id
>> >> attributes that are identical, which lead to invalid XHTML 1.0 Strict.
>> >>
>> >> Up to now, I have not found a good solution to this issue.
>> >>
>> >> However, I did have one really 'hack' solution...
>> >>
>> >> I wrote a simple Zend_Controller_Plugin to search and replace the
>> >> multiple IDs in the generated XHTML. The plugin is triggered at
>> >> dispatch loop shutdown.
>> >>
>> >> This is, of course, a very unsatisfying solution, but it works.
>> >>
>> >> Maybe you could take a similar approach, or someone else could say how
>> >> to avoid multiple identical id attributes in the first place.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks :-)
>> >>
>> >> Jonathan
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Eugene Morgan
>> >> <eugenemorganrea...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > I have a page that can potentially have multiple instances of the
>> >> > same
>> >> > form. I know I can use setElementsBelongTo() to prevent having more
>> >> > than one form element with the same name. But is there any similar
>> >> > way
>> >> > to prevent the dt and dd tags from getting assigned the same id
>> >> > attributes over and over again?
>> >> >
>> >> > For example:
>> >> >
>> >> > Form 1:
>> >> > $instance1->setElementsBelongTo('instance1');
>> >> > ...
>> >> > <form ...>
>> >> > <dl>
>> >> > <dt id="element1-label">
>> >> > <label class="optional" for="instance1-element1">Some
>> >> > label</label>
>> >> > </dt>
>> >> > <dd id="element1-element">
>> >> > <input type="text" name="instance1[element1]" ... />
>> >> > </dd>
>> >> > </dl>
>> >> > </form>
>> >> >
>> >> > Form 2:
>> >> > $instance2->setElementsBelongTo('instance2');
>> >> > ...
>> >> > <form ...>
>> >> > <dl>
>> >> > <dt id="element1-label"> // Same id duplicated from instance
>> >> > 1
>> >> > ...
>> >> > <input name="instance2[element1]" ... /> // But name
>> >> > changes
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
>
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