Ok, Anthony's idea is like a million times better.
-1 for extending the div class
:(
On Sep 27, 2:32 pm, kasapo <kas...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmmm... so python does not like dashes within an identifier, making
> this troublesome. You'll have to first off, get ride of the dashes in
> "data-role", maybe just use underscores and rewrite them to be dashes
> when rendering them in XML.
>
> I think your best option is to create a new DIV class (or alter the
> existing definition of class... meaning you can't upgrade web2py
> easily).
>
> Here's an example of a "mobile DIV" class that extends the standard
> gluon class:
>
> class mDIV(DIV):
> tag = 'div'
>
> def _xml(self):
> """
> helper for xml generation. Returns separately:
> - the component attributes
> - the generated xml of the inner components
>
> Component attributes start with an underscore ('_') and
> do not have a False or None value. The underscore is removed.
> A value of True is replaced with the attribute name.
>
> :returns: tuple: (attributes, components)
> """
>
> # get the attributes for this component
> # (they start with '_', others may have special meanings)
> fa = ''
> for key in sorted(self.attributes):
> value = self[key]
> if key[:1] != '_':
> continue
> name = key[1:]
> if value is True:
> value = name
> elif value is False or value is None:
> continue
> ############ MODIFICATIONS TO XML FUNCTION HERE ##############
> if name in ['data_role']: ### XXX - Add all other jQuery
> mobile micro-data formats to this list - XXX
> name = name.replace("_",'-')
> ############ END MODS ##############################
> fa += ' %s="%s"' % (name, xmlescape(value, True))
>
> # get the xml for the inner components
> co = ''.join([xmlescape(component) for component in
> self.components])
>
> return (fa, co)
>
> Usage (note -- because I'm lazy I modified gluon/html.py, which is NOT
> a good idea)
>
> >>> from gluon.html import mDIV
> >>> mDIV('test', _data_role='test').xml()
>
> '<div data-role="test">test</div>'
>
>
>
> You could probably throw that in modules and local_import it or in
> models if it's used everywhere anyway. You would have to add the list
> of attributes used by jQuery mobile (i'm really not knowledgable about
> that).
>
> This brings up an interesting issue, since the current TAG atributes
> cannot contain dashes... this might be something that should be
> patched, but we also need a sound policy on how to denote the dash (I
> think converting non-leading underscores to dashes is fine, as I can't
> think of any HTML element attributes that contain underscores...but I
> could be terribly wrong.)
>
> Just my $0.02
>
> On Sep 27, 1:10 pm, Murray3 <cjjmur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>
>
>
> > how do we do this with DIV() Helper?
>
> > for instance in interactive i want to return a div element for
> > collapsible elements
>
> > >>>print gluon.DIV( data-role="collapsible" data-theme="contention")
>
> > thanks
