> > 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. >
By trivial, I don't think Massimo meant to take templates with non-BS3 HTML structure and CSS classes and simply load the BS3 CSS file and expect to have everything work. > 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. > First, web2py does include a BS3 formstyle, so you can simply do: SQLFORM(..., formstyle='bootstrap3') and assuming you have the BS3 CSS loaded, your forms should look fine. More generally, though, web2py cannot cater to every CSS framework. Because Bootstrap is so popular, it is used for the scaffolding app, and there are built-in formstyles for BS2 and BS3. If you want to use another CSS framework, however, you can simply spend a few minutes writing a custom formstyle function, and then use that for all of your forms -- no need to write custom HTML in every form view. > 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. > I agree that the scaffolding app should migrate to BS3, but this is a bit of an odd complaint. Most server side frameworks come with no scaffolding app at all. How could the lack of a BS3 scaffolding app be killing web2py if the alternatives don't offer one either? web2py certainly doesn't make it any harder to work with BS3 than any other framework, and in fact it is generally easier because web2py does include a BS3 formstyle and BS3 classes for the grid (most other frameworks don't even include a grid for that matter). Of course it's easier if the scaffolding app already happens to be based on the CSS framework you want to use, but it really is not that difficult to take any front-end template you find and convert it to a web2py layout template, as described here <http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/05/the-views#Page-layout>. Just start with the HTML template and insert some of the web2py template code you see in the welcome layout.html, tweaked as needed. You might also keep some or all of web2py.css. In any case, Massimo has distributed a BS3 version of the welcome app, though if you're not planning to make any layout/styling modifications anyway, it really won't be any different from using the BS2 version. 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.
