[Zope3-Users] Re: Specifying form appearance

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Graham Stratton wrote:
> I'm sure this is completely obvious, since no one else has mentioned it
> anywhere, but I can't figure out what I'm meant to do.
> 
> All I want to do is to beautify my formlib form.  I've created my own
> template, and laid things out as I want, and rendered the widgets
> individually by name.  What I can't work out how to do is to change the
> size of the text boxes.  I'd have guessed that the place this should be
> done is in the page template, but I can't see how I can set
> widget.displayWidth from there.
> 
> Can someone please help me?

You could do it in the Page Template, but easier (not necessarily nicer)
way of doing it is directly in the Form implementation:

class FooEditForm(EditForm):
  form_fields = Fields(IFoo)
  ...

  def setUpWidgets(self, ignore_request=False):
    # set up widgets, they will be in self.widgets
    super(FooEditForm, self).setUpWidgets(ignore_request)
    self.widgets['my_field'].displayWidth = 10
    self.widgets['another_field'].css_class = 'bla'

etc.

Philipp