Re: CSS forms

Posted by Andrew Sykes on Jun 23, 2006; 5:29pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/CSS-forms-tp168701p168707.html

Given the recent discussions about beautifying OFBiz, adding AJAX etc,
perhaps this is "generally" a better approach...

- Andrew

On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 10:04 -0600, Al Byers wrote:

> I know there has been discussion about this in the  past, but I can't
> see a clear answer to my questions from them. I see a need for a simple
> ability to create single forms with css styles only. My current need is
> to show a horizontal query bar with drop-downs that send a query to the
> server. In this case I do not want any titles to show. I looked at using
> the position attribute to do this, but the table format screws things
> up. I also want to be able to take advantage of other widget special
> features, such as lookup or dates, without having tables involved.
>
> I was just thinking of creating a new form type, "css", that cycles thru
> the fields and does not do anything with tables and ignores the title if
> it is empty.
>
> Is this too simplistic? A bad idea? Won't be difficult to put together.
>
> -Al

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