I'm using django-uni-form to style my form using the filter my_form|as_uni_form:
<form class="uniForm" id="my_form" method="post" action="./">
<fieldset class="inlineLabels">
{{ my_form|as_uni_form }}
<div class="form_block">
<input type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</div>
</fieldset>
</form>
It looks really good. But I need to customize it.
For example, one of the field "percentage" of the form is of the type IntegerField. It is being rendered as an <input type="text">. The problem is that the text box is really wide, I'd like to make it only 2 character wide. Also I want to add a percentage sign "%" right after the text box so that users know they if they put in the number "10" in the text box, it means 10%.
Is there anyway to do that with django-uni-form?
Thanks for your help.
You'll need to loop over the elements of your form and render the uniForm markup yourself. Either that, you can customize the look of each input based on an id or class.
What I'd do is look at the mark up it generates, and then loop over the elements generating that same markup and customize them. See the Django docs for more information.
I have the same question as yours. I think the length of the text input is easy to change via css. I'm more concerned about the custom html element behind the input, in your case percentage mark. I don't find an easy solution to it. Looks like either we have to mimick the way a field is rendered in django-uni-form template or write a filter of our own. I'm still waiting for a more elegant solution.
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Is there any way to allow a link/anchor within an input field so that whatever text is in the field is ALSO clickable and actionable?
This is unfortunately not possible in HTML 4 or below. Even with HTML5 which has several new INPUT TYPEs, including URL, it only does validation and has some other useful functions, but won't give you want you want.
You might look for some jQuery plugins that can help you do this, most use the same principals behind Rich Text or other online/web-based HTML WYSIWYG editors. I've had trouble locating them myself.
These 3 situations (that I can think of right now) are pretty much what you will face natively with HTML4 or below, as text in an actual HTML4 INPUT textbox is pure text. It is not html and therefore NOT clickable. Here are some variations:
The INPUT tag's VALUE attribute, also referenced as the corresponding DOM object's "value" property (which is basically what you've been doing, and the most you can hope for, if you decide that you MUST have the text that's ACTUALLY inside the textbox (because the text inside the textbox is the VALUE attribute, as I have it with "http://yahoo.com" in this example):
<input id="myTxtbox" type="text" value="http://yahoo.com">
where the INPUT's VALUE = "http://yahoo.com", which you can retrieve with:
in pure javascript:
document.getElementById("myTxtbox").value
in jQuery:
$("myTxtBox").val()
When your link/url is the text in between the <INPUT> and </INPUT>, i.e. the text/innerText of the textbox. This is useless for your question/scenario since it's not clickable, and more importantly NOT INSIDE the textbox. However, someone might want to use this to retrieve any text that you may be using as a label (if you're not using the <label> tag itself already that is):
<input id="myTxtbox" type="text">
http://yahoo.com
</input>
The textbox's text/innerText is NOT an attribute here, only a DOM object property, but can still be retrieved:
pure javascript:
document.getElementById("myTxtbox").innerText
jQuery:
$("myTxtBox").text() -- you would use this to capure any text that you may be using as a label (if you're not using the tag).
The result being: http://yahoo.com
When your link/url is the form of an ANCHOR (<A>) with an HREF to your url (and visible link text) in between the <INPUT> and </INPUT>, i.e. the innerHTML of the textbox. This is getting a bit closer to what you want, as the link will appear as, and function as an actual link. However, it will NOT be inside of the textbox. It will be along side it as in example #2. Again, as stated in example #1, you CANNOT have actual working HTML, and therefore a working 'link' inside of a textbox:
<input id="myTxtbox" type="text">
<a href="http://yahoo.com">
http://yahoo.com
</a>
</input>
Once again, similarly to example #2, the textbox's innerHTML is NOT an attribute here, only a DOM object property, but can still be retrieved:
pure javascript:
document.getElementById("myTxtbox").innerHTML
jQuery:
$("myTxtBox").html()
The result being: http://yahoo.com
How do I move text to a new line in an HTML input element with the type="button" attribute?
I have following code:
<input type="button" id="btnTexWrapped" value="I see this is a long sentence here." style="width: 200px;" />
I want the button's text value to be wrapped in two lines. I tried typing it into the next line in HTML. It didn't work as I expected:
<input type="button" id="btnTexWrapped" value="I see this is a long
sentence here." style="width: 200px;" />
I also tried using all options of white-space with fixed width: 200px;, but still nothing works.
I am OK with statically fixing the length, width, or other values: as the control is not going to change.
white-space: normal;
should work
Try this, you can see how it works instantly:
<input type="button" value="Carriage
return
separators" style="text-align:center;">
You can use button tag
<button> I see this <br/>is a long <br/> sentence
here.</button>
For anyone reading this question 4 years later, I would like to add some clarifying details. Lokesh's answer is the correct one (not the accepted answer), but the initial question is based on a misunderstanding of how HTML works, which no one has addressed.
HTML is not a white-space significant language. That is, any new lines are completely ignored by the browser. While you can (and should!) put new lines in your HTML code in order to write readable, maintainable HTML, it will (almost) never affect the end result (I won't get into exceptions here).
As Lokesh indicated, you can use the <br /> tag to force a new line. Another common way is to use block level elements, such as div or section.
A number of elements are set to block by the browser UA stylesheet. They are usually container elements, like <div>, <section>, and <ul>. Also text "blocks" like <p> and <h1>. Block level elements do not sit inline but break past them. By default (without setting a width) they take up as much horizontal space as they can.
This is a quote from https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/d/display/, which is a very good reference on the different properties for the display attribute.
Additionally, I don't recommend trying to use any of the other suggested solutions which require putting encoded newline symbols inside the value attribute. This is pushing the input tag beyond was it was designed for. If you need more complex content for a button, the button tag is more appropriate. In fact, I generally don't think there's ever good reason to use <input type="button"> instead the button tag. It's much more semantic, easier to read, and is infinitely more flexible - for example, in allowing breaks and other elements (such as images!) inside it.
Just a bit of knowledge and a few recommendations from a professional web developer... :)
I had come cross type of requirement in my one of the project,i resolved like given below.
use html encoding string
<input button type="submit" value="This is button
two line text" />
for splitting the text in value attribute of the button tag
Hope this will help you..
Just press enter in the middle of the value, like this:
<input type="button" id="btnTexWrapped" value="I see this is a long
sentence here." style="width:200px;"/>
I
I just had a look at html of my twitter page as part of learning HTML. At the end of the page I can see a lot of state as the value of a hidden input tag (the value appears to be in json form).
I see no obvious form associated with this, and it doesn't appear in the html request.
I wonder if anyone might be able to guess how/why these inputs and their values might be used.
</body>
</html>
<input type="hidden" id="init-data" class="json-data" value="
{"scribeMetrics":0,"environment":"production","wtfOptions":
{"dismissable":true,"connections":true,"pc":true,"limit":3,"
disabled":false,"display_location":"wtf-component"}
........ and so on.
If you look at this javascript file, you see that the init-data element is used
var a=$("#init-data").val(),
b=JSON.parse(a),
c=$.makeArray(arguments);
b.moreCSSBundle?using("css!"+b.moreCSSBundle,d):d()}if($("html").hasClass("debug"))
//and so on
If you want to know, why they used a hidden field and not standard javascript variables, you have to ask the guys responsible for this at twitter themselves ;). I see no obvious reason and the minified code doesn't make it easier to understand what's going on.
I have an HTML form with radio buttons, check boxes, text fields and drop down lists.
Since I want user to fill everything in my form, none of the radio buttons and check boxes are checked and the text fields are empty.
I would like to write a CSS file that will fill the form with answers (I don't want to change my HTML file).
Is this possible ?
I would appreciate an example or any other idea ?
Thanks !
No, it isn't possible. CSS is for style, not markup, and changing the contents of an input field requires modification of the markup.
It sounds like you might want to consider JavaScript, which can be used to alter the contents of any element, including form elements.
Javascript is your best bet. If you want to fill in -sample- answers, however, like 'First Name' in the text area what would be labelled "First Name: " you can do something like <input type='text' value='First Name' name='emailForm'> and the value attribute will be filled in when the page loads.
You can use jQuery to accomplish what you want quite easily, using CSS-style syntax.
Here's a sample form:
<form ...>
<input name="firstName" />
<input name="lastName" />
</form>
And corresponding jQuery/JavaScript:
$(function () {
$("input[name=firstName]").val("John");
$("input[name=lastName]").val("Doe");
});
Should be easy enough to extend to a larger and more complex form. You can easily use classes or ids on the elements and in the jQuery selectors, as well.
CSS is for designing and styling the webpage. Although its capabilities have been exploited to pull of many tricks it is not a fix-all solution. What you need to do is pull the data you need to fill and put it in your fields.
You can do this two ways:
Use a server side language like PHP/ASP.Net to pre-fill this information.
Use Javascript/Jquery/MooTools or some other framework to fill it on the client-side, picking up the data from the server.
If the information is static then it is very easy, because you can just put this info as a part of the HTML content itself.
If this answer doesn't work for you, add more information to your question.
I was recently corrected, and according to the HTML4 DTD, it is legitimate to use a fieldset outside of a form:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/sgml/dtd.html#block
Previously I had not known this, and wonder if anyone can think of a legitimate use case for doing so. I feel like using one to decorate would be frowned upon by most designers. So is there a legitimate use case, or can you link to a site where this has been found appropriate and used as such?
I used a field set to decorate sections when printing documents. For example an invoice might have a Bill To and a Ship To, and drawing the frame around them with the legend text embeded in the frame can look really slick.
I think its more than legit to use it for decoration. Its simple and elegant and with the use of tag its pretty nice.
Check w3schools example out
I don't think there is a legitimate case to semantically have a fieldset outside a form element, since a fieldset is a set of (input) fields - the clue's in the name! If you have input fields, you will likely always have a form, even if you're not posting back to the server.
I have occasionally used from a presentational aspect, because the fieldset+legend combo is impossible to replicate exactly in CSS, specifically, the broken line behind the legend.
It is acceptable to use all form field control outside of a form element, including fieldset.
This is appropriate wherever you have fields that only talk to JavaScript, instead of ever being submitted back as to the server side.
(This didn't originally used to work in Netscape 4, but that's hardly a concern this century...)
Well, using it to decorate can be frowned upon by designers AND be legitimate, so there is a legitimate use case.
A form is simply a container for the fields you wish to submit via post back. Most regular site pages may not even have one. That said, using a fieldset as a styling tag is legitimate and has nothing at all to do with whether a form tag exists or not.
You can use a fieldset to wrap multiple form controls that you need to disable together:
<fieldset disabled>
<input type="text" placeholder="disableable input" />
<button type="button">Some action that needs to be disabled</button>
<button type="button">Some other action</button>
</fieldset>