[Catalyst] HTML::FormFu - how to manually control the rendering?

2008/8/18 <[email protected]>:
I agree it is a great tool - shame the mailing list is down.

I think you have to set the attribute id/class for element (or
fieldset) and use css to position those elements.

- type: Checkbox
name: truefalse
label: True or False
attributes:
title: Is this true or is this false
class: leftCheckBoxes



Good luck,
Dp.

2008/8/18 Dermot <[email protected]>:
The FormFu list uses the same server as this catalyst list - so it's
probably not down ;)

The old rawmode.org address has been killed though.
I think all the documentation has been updated, but if you got the old
address from somewhere recently, can you let me know where, and I'll
try to get it fixed.

Cheers,
Carl

Hi, there,

Thank you Dermot for your response.
I am not sure i see how introducing a class element for the element
would help.

For example, if we hand coded the form, we would have something like:


<form method="post" action="...">
...

<h3>Accessories</h3>
<table border="0">
<tr>

<td>
<input type="checkbox" name="battery"
value="battery">additional battery
</td>

<td>
<input type="checkbox" name="charger"
value="charger">spare charger
</td>
</tr>
<tr>

<td>
<input type="checkbox" name="screen_cleaner"
value="screen_cleaner">screen cleaner
</td>

<td>
<input type="checkbox" name="laptop_bag"
value="laptop_bag">laptop carrybag
</td>

</tr>

</table>


<input type="submit" name="submit" Value="Submit">
</form>



Question: How do we have a form generated like the one above using
HTML::FormFu?

thank you.

K. Akimoto










Quoting Dermot <[email protected]>:

I am not aware of a method for shoe-horning fields/fieldsets into a
table within FormFu. It could be done with css selectors but I can't
advise you on that. I think you should post to FormFu (not the
Catalyst list). Someone there might detail you how you can do it.

Good luck,
Dp.

If anyone has seen another tutorial (aside the one in the Catalyst manual),
please post the link here. Would help a lot :)

Thank you


K.akimoto

Quoting Dermot <[email protected]>:

Try including the following line in your yaml:

auto_id: %n

This will add an id attribute to every element tag, using the element name.

By the way, please join the HTML::FormFu mailing list as this is a good
place to post such questions: [email protected]

2008/8/18 <[email protected]>:
You can sign up to the HTML-FormFu mailing list here:
http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/html-formfu

Cheers,
Carl

Try this:

script/myapp_create.pl HTML::FormFu

Then go into $app_root/root/formfu and confirm the templates have been created.

Next add 'render_method: tt' to your form config.

http://search.cpan.org/~cfranks/HTML-FormFu-0.03002/lib/HTML/FormFu.pm#render_method

Caching is another matter.