Perhaps related to this. I would like to see the default behavior mimic that of CGI.pm where the label tags wrap the input elements. This way there is no "for" necessary to get the same UI behavior of clicking on the input text to toggle checkboxes and radio buttons. I believe this is legal XHTML and it's friendlier UI. It changes the clickable area for input drastically and is much easier on the eyes and mouse than trying to hit a little 16x16 target.
Carl? I want it enough to do a patch if you think it sounds reasonable and you're busy. -Ashley On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Re: [html-formfu] how to specify 'label-for' using configuration file > for html::formfu > > Carl Franks > Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:51:50 -0700 > > 2009/3/24 <[email protected]>: >> hi, all, >> >> <form> >> <label for="male">Male</label> >> <input type="radio" name="sex" id="male" /> >> <br /> >> <label for="female">Female</label> >> <input type="radio" name="sex" id="female" /> >> </form> >> >> How do we specify the "for" in a form label using html::formfu? >> >> I tried specifying "label <attribute> " in my config file but it >> doesn't work. Confirmed by checking the generated html. >> >> Here is part of my config file (using Config::General): >> >> # Address - start >> <elements> >> type Block >> id address >> <elements> >> <constraints> >> max 5 >> type Length >> message Length must be no more than 5 digits >> </constraints> >> filter TrimEdges >> filter HTMLEscape >> name street_number >> type Text >> label street_number <-- This doesn't work. >> <attributes> >> title Enter street number here >> </attributes> >> </elements> >> >> # Address - end > Hi, Carl, > > thanks but because I want to not touch too much of the form in my > controller and just want to keep the configuration to the configuration > file, I will try and specify an "ID" attribute such as: > > >> # Address - start >> <elements> >> type Block >> id address >> <elements> >> <constraints> >> max 5 >> type Length >> message Length must be no more than 5 digits >> </constraints> >> filter TrimEdges >> filter HTMLEscape >> name street_number >> type Text >> label street_number > id street_number <-- I am going to try this out >> <attributes> >> title Enter street number here >> </attributes> >> </elements> >> >> # Address - end > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hi, > > If the field has an ID, the label will automatically be given an > appropriate 'for' attribute. > > An easy way to do this for the whole form is with $form->auto_id() > > Carl > > _______________________________________________ > HTML-FormFu mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-formfu > > > _______________________________________________ > HTML-FormFu mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-formfu > _______________________________________________ HTML-FormFu mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-formfu
