Ticket please :-) On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Jim Pinkham <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a simple data entry form with a date/time field. > > My end users (web newbies) have found another interesting way to confound > the most clear and straightforward instruction I can devise regarding it's > (obvious?) use. > > I watched an end user type an entire time into the hour component without > tabbing over to the minute. > > So, I'd like to suggest a minor change to > extensions.yui.calendar.DateTimeField.html to add the maxlength="2" to the > current size="2" on the hour/min input controls. > > I think it might be a simple way to give earlier feedback (I've found it > unwise to rely on instructions like "Please enter dates and times like > this..." ). > > I know I could accomplish this for my own instances, perhaps with a copy of > this modified html in a spot higher in the classpath, or maybe an attribute > modifier someplace..., but then I thought what is the downside of making it > the default? Sure, it would impact a lot of code, but unless some locale > I don't know of has 3 digit minutes, I don't think in a negative way --- I > was suprised to find no other similar past discussion; perhaps there is > some obvious reason this isn't a good idea? I can't be the first one to > think of this, can I? > > Cheers, > Jim > > In case all that's not clear, here's what I mean in code: > > MyPage.html > <span wicket:id="eventOn">MM/DD/YYYY [picker] HH MM [amPM]</span> > > MyPage.java > add(new DateTimeField("eventOn")); > > DateTimeField.html in wicket-datetime-1.5-RC5.1.jar > <wicket:panel xmlns:wicket="http://wicket.apache.org";> > <span style="white-space: nowrap;"> > <input type="text" wicket:id="date" size="12" /> > <input type="text" wicket:id="hours" size="2" *maxlength="2"* /> > <span wicket:id="hoursSeparator"> :</span> > <input type="text" wicket:id="minutes" size="2" *maxlength="2"* /> > <select wicket:id="amOrPmChoice"></select> > </span> > </wicket:panel>
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