Thanks Anthony, it sounds like a good idea but the browser ends up receiving:
data-options="{"mode":"calbox", "useNewStyle":true}" We need to make this easier (let alone work), the newer mobile add-ons/plug-ins are using the data attributes a lot. If anyone else wants to play with this I am trying to use jQueryMobile DateBox: http://dev.jtsage.com/jQM-DateBox2/demos/mode/calbox.html the basic example requires to build an input field as follows: <input name="mydate" id="mydate" type="date" data-role="datebox" data-options='{"mode": "calbox"}'> Regards, Denes On Saturday, October 26, 2013 9:46:48 AM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: > > Attributes are always put in double quotes: > https://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/master/gluon/html.py#L907. I > suppose you could manually replace the double quotes after serializing: > > input = INPUT(..., data={'options': XML('{"mode":"calbox"}')}) > XML(input.xml().replace('"{', "'{").replace('}"', "}'")) > > Anthony > > On Friday, October 25, 2013 5:57:48 PM UTC-4, DenesL wrote: >> >> >> using web2py 2.5.1 source on windows >> >> Having trouble creating an INPUT with a "non-trivial" data attribute. >> Did try the following: >> >> INPUT(...,**{'_data-options':XML('{"mode":"calbox"}')} ) >> >> INPUT(..., data={'options':XML('{"mode":"calbox"}')} ) >> >> and several combinations with raw strings but it always outputs: >> >> <input data-options="{"mode":"calbox"}" ... /> which breaks on "{" >> >> Single quoted string works fine >> data-options="{'mode':'calbox'}" >> but the code requires double quoted strings. >> >> Bug, or is there a way I am not seeing?. >> >> Thanks, >> Denes >> >> P.S. printing what goes on in DIV._xml() produces a lot of output for the >> same attributes, inner component redundancy?. >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.