On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Carl Franks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/03/2008, Jeff Dairiki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just started using FormFu. And I think it's great. (Thank you.) > > > > Here's one thing that's been bothering me though. Most of the field > > types use (by default) a <span> for their container_tag. It seems to > > me that the default (for most field types) should be a <div>. > > > > - Generally, it would seem one would want each field on a new line --- > > <div> expresses that, <span> does not. > > > > - The default output without CSS is nearly unreadable. > > > > - The vertically aligned css (which so far is the only good > > example CSS for FormFu I've found --- are there others?) converts > > all these spans to display: block, in any case. > > > > > > So why the design decision to use the <span>s? I'm guessing (from > > what I've seen with the rest of the code) that there's a good reason > > but (as outlined above) I can't figure out what it is. > > > > I know I can change the element_defaults (and I have). But if there's > > a good reason to stick with <span>s please tell me before I get too > > far along with my <div>s. > > To quote myself from an email on the html-widget list on 23/03/07... > > " At the moment the default is 'span', but I'm starting to come round to > the idea of changing it to 'div', for a better default layout without > css. " > > So I can't really argue with myself ;) > > I've tested changing the online cssapp to use divs, and it doesn't > make any difference to the layout with the vertically-aligned css, but > does look much better when viewed without css. > > So, yes, I think we might as well change it. > Anyone else with an opinion on this? >
I am for it - I've talked to a designer here and he was as well surprised to see the spans. I have no opinion of myself - but I think we should make it easy for the designers. > Carl > > > > _______________________________________________ > HTML-FormFu mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-formfu > -- Zbigniew Lukasiak http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ HTML-FormFu mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-formfu
