2011/1/28 Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com>
> On Thursday, January 27, 2011 12:53:34 PM UTC-5, rochacbruno wrote:
>
>> *Manipulation of the SQLFORM object*
>> {{=form.elements()[0].insert(0,LABEL('test:',INPUT(_type='text')))}}
>> or in a more comprehensive way
>> {{=form.elements('form tr td')[0].insert(0,INPUT())}}
>>
>
> Altering forms via server-side DOM manipulations should be documented in
> the book. It seems to come up a lot, but I don't think it's all that obvious
> or explicit in the book. The Views chapter (ch. 5) discusses HTML helpers
> and server-side DOM generally, but I don't think there's any discussion of
> using these methods specifically to customize forms (because FORM and
> SQLFORM are discussed in ch. 7, it's not immediately obvious that they are
> also HTML helper objects and can therefore be manipulated in the same way).
> Examples of this probably belong in the "Custom forms" section (
> http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07#Custom-forms), or somewhere in
> ch. 7.
>
>
Yes, the only place I see this is in chapter #5
http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/05#Server-side-DOM-and-Parsing
I agree with you, and I think we need some explaination about using DOM to
forms manipulation.
I dont know if there are any other caveats about it, I did not try the
validation but I think it should work very well.
