sort of a form elements decorator... this has already been discussed
here, I'm sure Massimo wouldn't mind to include a nice solution to
this issue if someone has it. I too think there should be a way to
customize form markup. It has already been suggested that form can be
used for validation and its values can be used in a view with helpers
to create custom markup.
On Apr 29, 1:35 pm, AchipA <attila.cs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been customizing some forms that needed to be editable by a
> designer - we ended up having something I would call 'formify', at
> least for the time of the development cycle. What's the idea here you
> ask ? Imagine the following:
>
> form=FORM(SELECT(...), INPUT(..), INPUT(...))
>
> Now, this all nice but the layout either needs to be danced around
> with css funk (can get messy if the field ordering needs to change,
> etc) or with addressing form list elements from python in the view
> (even worse).
>
> However, what if we could say to our friendly designer - make the form
> look whatever you want it to look, as long as you keep the specified
> identifiers for the form fields. Then, we skip {{=form}} since it's
> already there in html, and at the end of the view, we hop in with
>
> {{=formify(form)}}
>
> which will generate JS code that actually replaces/rewrites the
> elements in the form with the ones in the 'form' var (based on their
> id/names) while keeping the original (designer specified) attributes
> of the elements.
>
> Well, it took almost as much to write this post as to code my stopgap
> solution (I'm not posting it here as it's very implementation
> specific), but still, I'm curious about your thoughts about making
> form design easier - this solution or other.
>
> PS. And yes, this is backwards compatible :)
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