Re: [Phphtmllib-devel] Textarea rendering behaviour.

[walt b. <wab...@3g...>]

Mark Lawrence wrote:

>Hi Walt,
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>>Hi Mark, you are correct about browsers and the textarea content.  I
>>have the flag set by default on the tag to tell it not to render
>>indentation on the tag at all.  You can take a
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>Ah, this was something I was not aware of, that you can set the
>indentability of individual tags...
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>What I did to get around it is set INDENT_LEFT_JUSTIFY on my "new
>HTMLPageClass" statement, which of course indents nothing.
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>>http://phphtmllib.newsblob.com/phphtmllib/examples/form2.php View the
>>source, and you will see the textarea tag not being indented at all.
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>Looks great! But how is it actually done? Having searched the API I found
>the Container::set_indent_flag() method. But my question is now how do you
>make it a default for all instances of a tag - ie all textareas. In fact,
>wouldn't it be better for the TEXTAREA class itself to have this set to
>false anyway?
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>Cheers, Mark.
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As I said in my earlier email the tag itself has a flag that should make 
it never indent.
Look at the tag_classes/ALLTAGS.inc on line 1449. 
class TEXTAREAtag extends HTMLTagClass {
    var $_tag = "textarea";
    function _set_flags() {
        parent::_set_flags();
        $this->_flags &= ~(_INDENT | _NEWLINEAFTEROPENTAG);
    }
} // TEXTAREAtag

If you look at the _flags setting, it is telling the tag to never 
indent, and never to put a newline character
after the open tag is finished. 

If you have an example where this isn't happening it is a bug, and I 
would like to see it.

Walt