Anthony, Thanks for the answer, I was aware of that completely. It is just that Massimo said that it is trivial to replace BS2 with BS3 yet when I try to do it the trivial way and then create a FORM in controller (whether it be simple form, sqlform or sqlform.factory) the form looks completely wrong. The same is with main menu.
Now I know that in this case I should create form in HTML using appropriate BS3 classes and then use that form in controller but I think you will agree that this takes away the ease of use which is one of the main strengths of web2py. I suppose that was why OP named this thread "Bootstrap is killing web2py". I think a lot of web2py users (like myself) are novices in web programming and while it may be trivial for versed web programmer to use BS3 with web2py it is not the case for the beginners. BS3 is more than a year old but I still develop my web apps using BS2 because that is what ships with web2py. I don't want to criticize, web2py is an excellent framework but I think it needs to ship with BS3, otherwise it will lose a lot of novice programmers and I think novice programmers are important because those are the future user base of web2py. Just my 2c. On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 1:12:44 AM UTC+2, Anthony wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 12:16:13 PM UTC-4, Dragan Matic wrote: >> >> Is there some tutorial how to do it for those of us not so versed in CSS? >> If you just replace bootstrap.min.css in static/css the menus and forms do >> not work the way they used to in BS2. >> > > Note, in general, you should not expect to simply replace the CSS for one > framework with that of another and have it work. The reason is that > front-end frameworks require a combination of CSS and specific HTML > structure with framework-specific classes. So, the layout must be > customized for the framework. > > The layout and CSS of the web2py scaffolding app is just intended as a > basic template. It is not part of the web2py framework nor coupled to the > framework. It is just one layout that you can use if you want. If you want > to use a different front end framework or some other template, you should > mostly throw out the scaffolding app layout and instead start with an > external template. You can then modify your template to turn it into a > layout.html view file (look at the scaffolding layout.html for ideas of how > to set it up). Check out > http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/05/the-views#Page-layout for > more details. > > Anthony > -- 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/d/optout.
