On Jan 27, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Thadeus Burgess wrote:

> Doesn't javascript input serialization expect to look the field up by id?

There's nothing *wrong* with having an id; it just needs to be unique on the 
page.

> 
> it should be
> 
> form = id = formname class=formname:
>   input:
>      class = formname
>      id = formname_field
> 
> #formname input { ... }
> #formname #formname_users_email { ... }
> #formname .formname { ... }
> 
> This would give a lot more flexibility from both a CSS design and a UI
> design using jquery selection.
> 
> -Thadeus
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 27, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Thadeus Burgess wrote:
>> 
>>> if it was defaulted to None we could go
>>> 
>>> if _id == None then id = tablename else id = _id
>>> 
>>> Id accept that, just set a unique id for each of my forms and nothing
>>> will conflict and it will still keep good with old apps.
>> 
>> And _id = False for no id at all.
>> 
>> It's not that it isn't useful to put all of them into the same class; it's 
>> that class is the right way to do it, rather than id.
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> -Thadeus
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Wes James <compte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Why not:
>>>> 
>>>>  form1=SQLFORM(..., _id="what_you_want")
>>>> 
>>>> -wes
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:31 AM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>>>>> The ids are only used for CSS. you can do
>>>>> 
>>>>> form1=SQLFORM(...,_class='form1')
>>>>> form1.accepts(request.post_vars,formname=None)
>>>>> form2=SQLFORM(...,_class='form2')
>>>>> form2.accepts(request.post_vars,formname=None)
>>>>> return dict(form1=form1,form2=form2)
>>>>> 
>>>>> and you can use the class to refer to the id of the first or the
>>>>> second in CSS. There should be no ambiguity.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Massimo
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> <snip>


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