RE: Need Form Help

Regarding...
>>  In the base quixote.form.Form class there's an annoying line in the 
>> _render_finish() method...
>>      r += htmltext('</form><br class="quixoteform" />')
>>
>>  This creates an HTML break. So I subclassed Form and overwrote the 
>> method. I shouldn't have to do that for mere formatting should I? 

> You can just add a css rule to not show this element. Or you can just 
> call not call _render_finish()

How would one "add a css rule to not show this element?" 
I did the following but it creates formatting problems within an HTML table. 
br.quixoteform { clear: both; line-height 0; display: none; }

I want to use the _render_finish() method in the base quixote.form.Form class. It's my contention that I shouldn't have to over-ride a base class to merely avoid <BR /> tags. To me the <BR /> tags should NOT be there in the first place as this is an unnecessary inter-mixing of presentation HTML code and logic code. What do you think?
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Mario Ruggier [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 4:51 PM
To: Orr, Steve
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Quixote-users] Need Form Help

On Jul 21, 2005, at 10:22 PM, Orr, Steve wrote:

> THANKS!!! This was very helpful. After a little work I was able to get 
> something working.
>
>  In the base quixote.form.Form class there's an annoying line in the 
> _render_finish() method...
>      r += htmltext('</form><br class="quixoteform" />')
>
>  This creates an HTML break. So I subclassed Form and overwrote the 
> method. I shouldn't have to do that for mere formatting should I? I 
> found no such "quixoteform" class in the css.py. Is this a bug?

You can just add a css rule to not show this element. Or you can just 
call not call _render_finish(), but just write it out in your render 
func. There is this wiki entry that may be of interest:
http://www.quixote.ca/qx/CustomFormRendering


>  This brings up another question... Are there some quixote classes 
> which are commonly subclassed to add custom functionality or 
> formatting? Are there any classes which developers routinely subclass? 
> And what's the impact of then having to code against your subclasses 
> versus the base classes?

I typically write my own renderer, as i did in your sample. You may 
need to specify your own _parse().

One thing I find doing at times, because of the way pasre works 
(setting value of widget automatically) is to simply force the value 
directly on the request set request.form['name']. Ugly... any better 
ways to do this simply?

mario