The reason is he had a outsourced designer make all of the stylesheets. He
would have to either rewrite those stylesheets to accommodate web2py, or
change web2py to accommodate those spreadsheets. From the sound of it, there
are tons of form spreadsheets and would be quite tedious to alter them.
This is where having the ability to customize css attributes during form
creation would be "nice".
-Thadeus
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:07 AM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> Why do you need classes to style the default widgets?
> They are very simple, they basically just have an INPUT so you can do
>
> form['_class']='myclass'
>
> .myclass INPUT#name {
> ... style of the INPUT in the widget name in form...
> }
>
> There is nothing you cannot already do in CSS.
>
> Massimo
>
>
>
> On Nov 27, 11:19 pm, waTR <r...@devshell.org> wrote:
> > That sounds like it might work. I will look into it.
> >
> > Re: jQuery
> > It becomes very messy when you have to do that. It is fine when the
> > developer does the design and coding, but when working in a team you
> > can't do that. You need to have a system in place where you have to do
> > minimal modification/additional code to make the design work with the
> > already enormous amounts of logic code.
> >
> > It should be built into the SQLFORM widget object. It doesn't seem so
> > complicated to do. I will look into it and see.
> >
> > Though I am not intending to do anything that would affect backward
> > compatibility here, this is rather a simple modification of what is
> > already there and maybe add an additional optional field that takes a
> > dictionary to modify the dictionary created by SQLFORM.custom.widget
> >
> > On Nov 27, 5:58 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Try actually overriding the form widgets.
> >
> > > So you can override SQLFORM.widgets dictionary with your custom ones
> that
> > > define your own classes.
> >
> > > You can see example widgets on web2pyslices.com for this purpose.
> >
> > > -Thadeus
> >
> > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:35 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu>
> wrote:
> > > > I am not sure this is a good idea. It is not necessary for the
> purpose
> > > > of customization
> > > > Moreover you can do it with jQuery
> >
> > > > jQuery('#table_password').addCladd('custom_1');
> >
> > > > On Nov 27, 6:55 pm, waTR <r...@devshell.org> wrote:
> > > > > I am wondering if anyone is working on adding a capability to set a
> > > > > class for a single element in an SQLForm.custom.widget out of
> however
> > > > > many are passed to it from a db.table. I.e.
> >
> > > > > You have a table named USER with Name, Email, Password.
> > > > > Set Name <input> to class = "password OR string OR whatever is
> > > > > default + custom_1 custom_2 custom_n". In addition, would be
> nice
> > > > > to have access to size="" of <input> as well.
> >
> > > > > If no one is working on anything like this, I am interested in
> taking
> > > > > a stab into this darkness...
> >
> > > > > Let me know if no one is working on this and I will put forward my
> > > > > proposed design modification (in english, not code). If there is no
> > > > > cries of outrage I will get it coded. Otherwise, I guess I might
> just
> > > > > do it for my local copy only. I really need this facility to speed
> up
> > > > > my forms creation--my app has a hundred or so, and all the CSS has
> > > > > been done by an outside designer. I really don't want to modify his
> > > > > design or CSS links. I just want to be able to plug the Input
> fields
> > > > > and have the form start working.
> >
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