[Zope-dev] Re: Setting the size of a zope.formlib's schema html input

[Christian Zagrodnick]

On 2008-04-07 09:25:28 +0200, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net> said:

> Previously Christian Zagrodnick wrote:
>> On 2008-04-07 03:41:34 +0200, "Marcelo de Moraes Serpa"
>> <celoserpa at gmail.com> said:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> This might sound lik a stupid question, but I couldn't find any simple
>>> solution or answer for this anywhere else, so hopefully someone in this
>>> list
>>> knows the answer.
>>> 
>>> I'm using zope.formlib to generate a simple contact form. It is simple and
>>> effective. But the framework complicates for simple things such as setting
>>> the size of a textfield. I don't want all the textfields to be of the same
>>> size - I want that, depending on the field, the size of the html input will
>>> vary. And that's exactly what I couldn't do as of yet. Does anyone know how
>>> could I set the size of a textfield?
>>> 
>>> Take this as example:
>>> 
>>> Telefone = schema.TextLine(title=_(u"Telefone para Contato"),
>>> required=True)
>>> 
>>> Is there an attribute like size or something?
>> 
>> No, use CSS for layout. :)
> 
> That depends on the type of input you want to influence. For text
> <input> elements the size attribute indicates the maximum number of
> characters a user can input in the field, and you can not control
> that using CSS.

Well, okay. But still this information must not be put into the 
schema/interface but in the form.

> 
> Often you also want to put a different CSS class or id on the different
> type of <input> fields. You do not want your checkboxes to be just
> as wide as your text input fields!

a) input[type="text"]
b) You should have the widget id/name as id on the input field or some 
containing div.

Regards,
-- 
Christian Zagrodnick

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