I've created custom form using FAPI for my site. And I place each control at specific location base on template provided by the designer. For instance -
<div id="myform">
<span>Enter Your Name : </span> <?php print drupal_render($form['name']); ?>
<span>Gender : </span><?php print drupal_render($form['gender_radio']); ?>
....
</div>
<?php print drupal_render($form['submit']); ?>
Here's my question - How do I enclose all the elements inside form tag? Is hardcoding the form tag inside the template file right way to do in drupal? or is it better to create in hook_form? But doing so would require me to add closing form tag at the end manually. Any suggestion would be highly appreciated.
Drupal - 6.x
It sounds like maybe you read about building individual fields, but skipped over some basic concepts of FAPI. In short, if you call the form with drupal_get_form(), you get the form container (and many of the benefits of using FAPI, e.g. tokens, validation, etc.) automatically. To handle the markup that goes around your form elements, you can then use #prefix, #suffix, and markup elements.
You can assemble the whole form from the outside in like you're doing, but there are few cases in which that would really be worthwhile. If you really want to do that, you basically want to copy what drupal_get_form() does to get the form wrapper added in a way that will work with FAPI.
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In the past I have built labels for my form like this:
<label wicket:for="name"><wicket:label><wicket:message key="name"></wicket:message></wicket:label>:</label><input wicket:id="name" type="text"/>
Do I still need to use the wicket:label tag? I am not using wicket:label in wicket 7 and it seems to work fine. I may not be understanding the purpose of using wicket:label. It seems like wicket:label is just additional markup. Below is what I am doing now. Is this correct?:
<label wicket:for="name"><wicket:message key="name"></wicket:message>:</label><input wicket:id="name" type="text"/>
This example is related to Wicket XHTML tags
Have a look at the JavaDoc of AutoLabelResolver and AutoLabelTextResolver.
The <label wicket:for="name"> is handled by AutoLabelResolver. It links the HTML label tag to the HTML form component (in your case the input tag) by filling in the correct ID in the HTML for attribute of the label. It also adds css classes to the label tag for for example errors, so you can style the text in the label tag in case of an error.
The <wicket:label> has two purposes. If you give it a value either by the key attribute (as you did) or by having some text between the tags, the text is set as the label model of the Java FormComponent, which then is used in validation messages like this '${label}' is required. (see LabeledWebMarkupContainer#setLabel and LabeledWebMarkupContainer#getLabel).
If you don't assign any text to the <wicket:label> tag, then it is used as output. That means the value of the label model of your Java FormComponent is used to replace the tag.
If you have no <wicket:label> in the HTML markup and no label model set in your Java code, then your Java FormComponent will have an empty label model and Wicket falls back to using the Wicket ID as label. So depending on how your Wicket IDs look, you will get validator messages like 'user_name' is required. instead of something nice looking like 'User name' is required.
I have a question about the wrappers/accordeons. I now have multiple wrappers and in each wrapper there is a form. Now, I want one sendbutton on the end of the page. The sendbutton which will send all the forms that have been filled in at once.
How can I do that?
I don't know why you want to break input into different forms and then submit them again at once. Would it not make sense to use one form and submit the data and process it the way you want using the processFormData hook? may be because you want the accordion to group you form fields. Let me help you this way:
Create your form in the format shown below. Make sure the form has a tabless layout to be able to use fieldsets.
Create a fieldset without a label. You may add the class ce_accordion just in case you have some styling attached to it.
Create a field of type html and add the following markup.
<div class="toggler">Form 1 headline here</div>
Create another field with the following markup
<div class="toggler">
Now create your input fields from here. for example a text field,textares.
Create a field of type html to close html markup created in step 3
</div>
Create a fieldset wrapper end here.
The above steps can be repeated as many as how many groups of fields you want to create in an accordion.
Now create you submit button here and it will send all your data the way you want.
Just a by the way:
If some one submits a form in a wrapper that is closed, how will he know which wrapper has error fields?
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".ce_accordion").each(function(index,el) {
if($(this).find("p.error")){
$(this).addClass("hasErrors");
$(this).find("div.toggler").addClass("active").attr("aria-expanded","true");
}
});
});
You can now add a style for .hasErrors rule
I'm trying to set a class or id parameter on a <h:inputHidden> in JSF. The code looks like this:
<h:inputHidden value="#{getData.name}" class="targ" />
But in the browser, the class isn't set:
<input type="hidden" name="j_idt6" value="j_idt6">
I need to set a class to this parameter, because I have a JavaScript autocomplete function for a <h:inputText> that sets a value in the hidden input, which needs to be passed in the next page.
Any ideas? Thanks!
I know it's a little bit late, but it can help someone in the future.
As inputHidden shows nothing in the browser there's no sense to allow it to have a class.
You can use the Id but as the Id could change as you change the component parents using it would bring some headache.
I'd suggest as a workaround, you can give it a parent so you can manipulate it by javascript.
Exemple:
JSF
<h:panelGroup styleClass="someCssClass">
<h:inputHidden id="someId" value="someValue" />
</h:panelGroup>
Javascript (using jQuery, you could use pure javascript also)
$('.someCssClass input[type=hidden]').val('yourNewValue');
None of these answers here satisfied my needs (need the PrimeFaces component, need class not ID, wrapping is too much work), so here's what I came up with:
Use pass-through attributes: https://www.primefaces.org/jsf-2-2-pass-through-attributes
Use pass:hidden-class="blah" (in my case, it's xmlns:pass up top)
Use [attribute=value] selector:
https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_attribute_value.asp
document.querySelector multiple data-attributes in one element
That basically boils down to using something like this (because h:inputHidden becomes a regular input): document.querySelector("input[hidden-class=" + blah + "]")
Please, see similar question - How can I know the id of a JSF component so I can use in Javascript
You can sed "id" property, but in final html code it can be not the same, but composite: for example, if your input with id="myhidden" is inside form with id="myform", final input will have id="myform:myhidden".
In the end, I used a standard HTML <input type="hidden"> tag, as I had no advantages for using the JSF one. If you're trying to set a value in a hidden input with JavaScript, I recommend using this workaround.
I want to be able to format a field in Joomla. I'm creating a form that has a number of inputs and I want to format the inputs to have a yellow background and be of various lengths. Currently my form is produced in the standard Joomla way:
<div class="tablecol1">
<?php echo $this->form->getLabel('dob'); ?>:
</div>
<div class="tablecol2">
<?php echo $this->form->getInput('dob'); ?>
</div>
I've looked through the JForm stuff but I can't figure out how to control the format of the generated input box?
help would be great thanks
Setting a class for the inputs would be the quickest and easiest way as mentioned by MasterAM. You can then style it however you wish using CSS.
If you need to change the HTML or particular attributes that are not possible to set through the default parameters, then the next option is to create your own field type.
You can either override the existing ones or create ones with new names. For example you could copy the checkbox field (/library/joomla/form/fields/checkbox.php) into your own folder (/components/com_mycomponent/form/fields).
If you leave it as JFormFieldCheckbox it will override the default one. If you rename it - e.g. JFormFieldCustomCheckbox then you can have your own one.
The primary function you will want to look at is getInput(). This generates the HTML and will let you create your own input html with whatever attributes you wish.
To use custom attributes/settings from your form xml file, in your getInput() function you will use something like:
$fieldsize = $this->element['field_size'];
I use SHtml.jsonForm in myjsonclass.show to wrap a jsonform to the HTML page with the following command:
<div id="form" class="lift:myjsonclass.show">
It works fine.
The SHtml.jsonForm method defines a random id for the form tag, I wonder if there is a solution to get that id and use it in the HTML. It will make easier for example to apply form validators in Javascript.
I have solved that by accessing a known element of the form and asking for its parent in javascript: element.parent(); So I am able to get id of the form with: element.attr('id').