We have started using Wijmo (based on the jQuery UI & jQuery UI Theme Roller) on one of our applications but have a problem with the dropdown and button in the Wijmo Form Decorator styling.
I have had a look at the Wijmo Docs but they haven't been helpful.
We have initiated the script and the style is applied however on all forms I cannot get the dropdown item to align correctly with other elements.
The initiation script is as follows:
<script id="scriptInit" type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$(":input[type='text'],:input[type='password'],textarea").wijtextbox();
$("select").wijdropdown();
$(":input[type='radio']").wijradio();
$(":input[type='radio']").wijcheckbox();
$("button").button();
});
</script>
As you will notice the .button() and .wijdropdown() functions are applying to each instance of the tag versus a class or an ID - we have the same problem with all 3 methods and have gone this way as this is what is desired through the entire application.
You can see a screenshot of the problem here:
I have been using Firebug to try and work out what the problem is and I suspect part of it is that Wijmo converts the select element into a div and applies JS to enable the select functionality.
I have been using both Firebug and Chrome developer tools to debug this, I notice that there is no margin being applied either above or below either element.
I have removed all other stylesheets that are not Wijmo or ThemeRoller but no change. We are using the "rocket" theme that comes with Wijmo.
Each time I try and manipulate the margin-top property on either it realigns all elements that are inline with the input search field directly above.
The HTML code for the form is:
<FORM id="serialSearch" name="serial_search" method="POST" action="index.php">
<label>Serial number: </label><input type="text" name="query" id="query" size="30" autocomplete="off" value="<? echo $serial_query; ?>" />
<br />
<select name="searchType">
<option value="standard">Standard</option>
<option value="fuzzy">Fuzzy</option>
</select>
<button>Search serial numbers</button>
<input type="hidden" name="serial_submit" id="serial_submit" value="search_serials" />
</FORM>
It is really important for us to get this aligning correctly and appreciate any suggestions, thanks in advance.
you need to wrap all the forms elements inside a div with let's say a class "input" and apply this style to the div elements:
div.input {
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
}
here you can see a jsfiddle that shows how it looks like.
as a suggestion, next time create a jsfiddle more than a screenshot so it's easier for people and for you to test your code.
Related
As a usability feature I'd like to add highlights to the currently focused form element, in a similar fashion to the moneysupermarket forms. I'm working with an HTML pattern for building forms that I cannot change:
<div class="field">
<label for="name">
Name
</label>
<input id="name" type="text" value="Fred">
</div>
I thought I'd come up with a simple solution: I'll add focus and blur events to all inputs, selects and textareas that toggles a .hasfocus class on the wrapping div, then hook styling on that class.
Here's a demo on JSBin but if you're using Firefox or Chrome 40 you may see the issue I have: Adding the CSS content property to the div.field breaks the form interaction, it seems the initial mouse click is swallowed by the browser & you're unable to select the content. I'm stumped, I think it may be a browser bug. Any ideas how I can make the highlighted elements behave as the others?
Thanks in advance!
Edit:
Here's a screencast that demonstrates the issue: http://screencast.com/t/LlmwcsZ2qYM
I was unable reproduce in Chrome 42, but I did reproduce this in Firefox 37. It appears as though adding the highlighting to the label element fixes the issue:
.field.hasfocus label:before {
content:"";
...
}
Updated JS Bin: http://jsbin.com/kajifoquci/edit?html,css,js,output
You missed your test-x references.
The whole idea with the focus on the field through the labels, is the mapping of the for attribute with the id attribute. The name attribute alone is not going to cut it. Since id has to have a unique value on the page, I ended up at 5.
<label for="test5">
Test 5
</label>
<!-- name="test4" -->
<select id="test5">
<option value="">one</option>
<option value="">two</option>
<option value="">three</option>
</select>
So you can simplify your logic with:
$('input, select, textarea').on('focus blur', function (){
var el = $(this),
field = el.closest('.field');
field.toggleClass('hasfocus');
});
You can keep the .control.hasfocus:before to disable this effect on .control classes.
Hope this helps.
DEMO
I have a form with <input type="submit">. In Chrome submit doesn't do anything. On a Network tab in developer tools I see nothing. No errors in developer tools either. Meanwhile, if I do save a page and open a saved page, then after I press submit button, I see something appears in Network tab. This happens in Chrome and Firefox. This works as expected in IE.
Does anybody have a hindsight, what should I look at?
I don't need a direct answer, I only need to know, where should I look at. If someone posts a direction and that'll help me to solve my problem, I'll accept it as a correct answer.
Structure of a page looks like this:
html
head
body
div
div
form
form
form
form
form
input
input
table
table
tbody
tr..td..input type=submit
If you are not using any JavaScript for form validation then a simple layout for your form would look like this:
<form action="formHandler.php" method="post">
<input name="fname" id="fname" type="text" value="example" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
You need to ensure you have the submit button within the form element and an appropriate action attribute on the form element is present.
For a more direct answer, provide the code you are working with.
You may find the following of use: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html
Are you using HTML5? If so, check whether you have any <input type="hidden"> in your form with the property required. Remove that required property. Internet Explorer won't take this property, so it works but Chrome will.
I faced this problem today, and the issue was I was preventing event default action in document onclick:
document.onclick = function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
}
Document onclick usually is used for event delegation but it's wrong to prevent default for every event, you must do it only for required elements:
document.onclick = function(e) {
if (e.target instanceof HTMLAnchorElement) e.preventDefault();
}
Hello from the future.
For clarity, I just wanted to add (as this was pretty high up in google) - we can now use
<button type="submit">Upload Stuff</button>
And to reset a form
<button type="reset" value="Reset">Reset</button>
Check out button types
We can also attach buttons to submit forms like this:
<button type="submit" form="myform" value="Submit">Submit</button>
Check if you are using any sort of jquery/javascript validation on the page and try disabling it and see what happens. You can use your browser's developer tools to see if any javascript file with validate or validation is being loaded. You can also look for hidden form elements (ie. style set to display:none; or something like that) and make sure there isn't a hidden validation error on those that's not being rendered.
I ran into this on a friend's HTML code and in his case, he was missing quotes.
For example:
<form action="formHandler.php" name="yourForm" id="theForm" method="post">
<input type="text" name="fname" id="fname" style="width:90;font-size:10>
<input type="submit" value="submit"/>
</form>
In this example, a missing quote on the input text fname will simply render the submit button un-usable and the form will not submit.
Of course, this is a bad example because I should be using CSS in the first place ;) but anyways, check all your single and double quotes to see that they are closing properly.
Also, if you have any tags like center, move them out of the form.
<form action="formHandler.php" name="yourForm" id="theForm" method="post">
<center> <-- bad
As strange it may seems, it can have an impact.
You can't have a form element as a child (directly or indirectly) of another form element.
If the following does not return null then you need to remove the excess form elements:
document.querySelectorAll('form form');//Must return null to be valid.
check your form is outside the table
I have a checkbox created as follows:
<td class="center">#Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.IsBusinessHours)</td>
It renders as the following html:
<input disabled="disabled" class="check-box" type="checkbox" CHECKED="checked"/>
My problem is that the check in the box is very hard to read in this disabled state.
I would like to know the best way to style the checkbox to make it appear like the non-disabled checkbox (or otherwise make it more readable). However I still want the checkbox to be read only.
My project uses Asp.Net MVC, jQuery and jQuery-UI.
you can add rules like this to you CSS style sheet :
input[disabled='disabled'] {
color: #ccc;
}
but ie6 doesnt support that, just a heads up.
I ended up resolving this issue by replacing my checkboxes with jQuery UI buttons. The jQuery script that I ended up using is posted here.
I came upon a revelation the other day. When attempting to create a submit button by using an image, I ran into a problem where the image was not displayed but the value text was. At the time, this is not what I wanted, but now, as I look back, I see some potential use for this.
If you need to send data to another page, but none of it requires user input, you can either send it in the link (or form) via GET or through a form via POST. The problem is that the former creates ugly URLs and the latter requires a submit button that looks out of place. Of course, I could come up with an image, but what if I just wanted selectable text.
So, I started playing around a bit and Firefox appears to render the following how I desire, as a clickable link that submits a form. All you have to do is remove the src attribute from the input type='image' tag:
<form action='some_page' method='post'>
<input type='hidden' name='email_address' value='test#test.com' />
<input type='image' value='E-mail User' />
</form>
Does this solution work on other browsers? What are the downsides to doing this (aside from the obvious fact that your link CSS isn't applied properly)?
There's no need to use an image input, why not just use a regular submit button and apply some heavy-handed styling to make it look like regular text?
<input type="submit" value="E-mail User" class="link">
<style>
input.link {
border: none;
background: none;
cursor: pointer;
/* etc */
}
</style>
I like a solution that uses an actual link (hidden) that gets exposed via javascript in conjunction with a button inside a noscript tag.
<form action="some_page" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="email_address" value="test#test.com" />
E-mail User
<noscript>
<input type="submit" value="E-mail User" />
</noscript>
</form>
$('submit-link').click( function() {
$(this).closest('form').submit();
return false;
})
.show();
Using HTML 4.01 Strict it worked on FF3.5, but not on IE8 or Chrome. The link works, but there is no text just a blank spot for a missing image.
So, this would appear to be a bad idea, since it may only work on one browser. To me that is a pretty big downside, unless your only market is for Firefox browsers, then, go ahead, great idea. :)
As James Skidmore suggested, it is easy to do an onclick with javascript to submit it as a post.
I would suggest unobtrusive JS, so, if someone doesn't have JS on then it will work as a link, doing a GET submission, but if they have JS then it would change the behavior to be POST with no ugly url change.
Or, as was mentioned the background of the image can blend in with the form background.
You could instead submit the form dynamically via JS, or use a regular submit button with a transparent or white background.
my application working well in all browsers except IE.
In my application I have a div popup form which contains some fields. In the text box it i pressed any key it was not displaying. If i move the mouse then the entered texts are displaying actual thing is screen not refreshed
How to solve this.
mycode:
<form>
//this is popup form
<div>
<form>
<input type="text"/>
<!-- if i type in the text box in IE it is not displaying but in some pc only -->
</form>
</div>
</form>
Thanks,
If i understand correctly, you want to have a popup, containing a form. The code you pasted is just html; it does not have any of this interactivity.
Let's start with your code. It has a form with a form inside it. The form tag is used to specify the start of a web form. You can specify several thing in this tag:
action: Where will the form be posted to? e.g. send the form to http://www.example.com/processform/
method: Will the form be submitted using the GET or POST method?
Having a second form tag inside it doesn't make sense: your browser will not know where to post the form to. Most browsers will choose to use one of the two tags, but they might choose the wrong one or ignore the form tags entirely.
If you want to have a form in a popup, use an approach like following html code:
<p><span id="clickablelink">Open the form</span></p>
<div class="dialog" style="display: none;">
<form action="/process/" method="post">
<input type="text" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit this form" />
</form>
</div>
This code part should be inside the part of your html document.
You cannot open a dialog in the same page, unless you use JavaScript, jQuery or another framework to display this form. An example of this using jQuery UI:
<link type="text/css" href="css/themename/jquery-ui-1.7.1.custom.css" rel="Stylesheet" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-ui-1.7.1.custom.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$(".dialog").dialog({
autoOpen: false
});
$("#clickablelink").click(function(){
$(".dialog").dialog("open");
});
});
</script>
This code block should be inside the part of your html document.
This is just a basic example. It might not be exactly what you are looking for. It is meant to show you in what directions you can look for your specific solution. I would suggest putting more details in your question:
For what purpose are you using this website?
What will this form be used for?
Why are you displaying a form inside a dialog?
Answering these questions and specifying your problem help you understand what you are trying to achieve and help us to answer your question properly.
You can read more about forms and javascript dialogs at the following links:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp
http://mdrisser.r1designs.net/blog/?p=3
And for information about the jQuery framework:
http://www.jquery.com
http://ui.jquery.com