Re: Bootstrap 4: Validation error messages in red font color

On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 6:05 PM Volker Lamp <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello, Tapestry developers -
>

Hello, Volker and Tapestry community!

Thank you very very much for noticing this and providing a solution. It
will be included in Tapestry 5.8.1. I've also added the configuration
symbol and an explanation to the Configuration class in the documentation.

Cheers!


> Using Tapestry's BeanEditor component with Bootstrap 4, I'm trying to get
> validation error messages appear with a red font color like they used to
> with Bootstrap 3.
>
> Trying to understand from the Tapestry source code why Tapestry outputs
> Bootstrap v3-style "help-block" instead of v4-style "form-text" [1], I
> became aware of the SymbolConstants.ERROR_CSS_CLASS configuration symbol.
> Setting its value to "form-text text-danger" did the trick for me.
>
> Two recommendations for improvement:
>
> First, the Configuration page of the Tapestry website [2] doesn't mention
> the ERROR_CSS_CLASS configuration symbol. It should be added to make it
> easier for other Tapestry users trying to solve the same problem or similar
> problems.
>
> Second, importing  the Bootstrap4Module should provide validation messages
> with a red font color as the default.
>
> Thank you for the time your are putting into Tapestry. I'm a big fan.
>
> Volker
>
> [1] https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.3/components/forms/#help-text
> [2] https://tapestry.apache.org/configuration.html
>


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Thiago