Re: [Webwork-devel] New UI tags? - <ui:hidden> and <ui:textlabel>

[Rickard <ri...@mi...>]

Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote:

> I'd like to propose two new UI tags
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> <ui:hidden> which generates a form hidden field, the template is very
> simple as it just spits out the input control and no HTML at all is
> necessary


What value would this have over doing raw HTML? With the other tags the=20
idea is to 1) have a simple way of showing and modifying data and 2) to=20
be able to control the l&f of the UI control. A hidden field tag would=20
accomplish neither.

What am I missing?


> <ui:textlabel> (better name?) - basically this is useful when you want
> to spit out some text for the user, which is not submitted with the for=
m
> - but in the same style.
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> eg
> 	<ui:textlabel label=3D"'Project'" name=3D"'selectedProject/name'" />
> 	<ui:textfield label=3D"'Summary'" name=3D"'summary'" />
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> generates something like (imagine an HTML table ;))
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> Project:  Project1
> Summary:  <<textfield>>
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> IMHO both should take 5 minutes, but will make the form library a littl=
e
> more comprehensive.
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> Thoughts?

For the style part you could just use HTML with the CSS classes to get=20
the same style. But, yes, it might be a point to do a tag for it.

/Rickard

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