Re: Decorating XForm textarea

Tuesday 18 October 2005 10:51 skrev Adam FLinton:
> The XForm textarea has no properties (at least in styling terms) which
> is fine per se (e.g. height, width etc.)

No, we haven't really looked much on styling yet, I'll give you that.

> As a result if doing a repeat in XForms to populate a table, the edges
> of the table snake down the page & the textarea assumes the default
> (usually fairly small) size unless it is filled by a string which has a
> greater length in which case it is that length.

I'm not sure I'm following you. Please create a bug with a test form, and 
describe the problem and the expected results.

> Implementations should implement this is a transparent to the Xform
> designer way.
>
> i.e. if the Xform plugin has loaded the XML/XHTML & has then delivered
> the "XHTML" to the next stage (e.g. JavaScript scripts) then the XHTML
> should be capable of holding std XHTML properties from that stage on.
> e.g. as far as any Javascript or css should see there should be the std
> textarea properties which they can then set/manipulate/draw information
> from.

Well, xforms:textarea and html:textarea are not equivalent. The rich text 
editors etc. that you want to use are made for html:textarea. I surely would 
like to see them work for xforms too, but when I look at the buglist it 
suddenly does not seem that important :-)

I would like to help in facilitating it, but only with limited time and 
resources. I'm sure we can "hack" something together that works in Firefox, 
but cross-processor will be a bit harder. Though, we might be able to use the 
custom control interface (which should help doing cross-processor stuff) to 
get it working on multiple processors. I'm currently refining it to allow 
that: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306764

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Allan Beaufour
Linux Software Engineer

Novell, Inc.
Software for the Open Enterprise
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