[Solar-talk] Question about using forms

[Kilbride, James P.]

Here here! I sometimes get sick of all the CSS people use when it suddenly starts doing strange things because of window sizes or because it loaded wacky(I don't know about you folks, but I've seen some very odd things happen when part of the form loads but some other element linked into some other file fails to load for some reason and only part of the CSS loads). I like CSS a lot and I've also seen that CSS just doesn't quite seem to do certain things quite right easily. If all you've got is tabulated data, you want it to keep it's size tables really do make sense. The same is true for forms. I have a form, for example, which is a dyanmic list of elements that are to be laid out left to right. Tables are quick, simple and perfect. All depends on what you want something for.
 
James Kilbride

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From: solar-talk-bounces at lists.solarphp.com on behalf of Raymond Kolbe
Sent: Wed 11/21/2007 1:16 AM
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Subject: Re: [Solar-talk] Question about using forms


In my application I have a table with a few columns and the very right column is a check box column for "deleting" that data. I refuse to use CSS to create tables for my tabulated data as I think css to create tables is ridiculous (more trouble than it is worth). For the moment I have reverted to writing the form items out myself for that column. 

Now, for regular forms, such as a 'new user' registration page, I wouldn't use a table. I use the form helper and encapsulate it in css for the styles.

Hope that clears things up where I am coming from on this. I know Cruz gave an example of just having an email address as a text field and trying to put it in a table, but this doesn't mean we shouldn't peruse a solution to breaking up form elements using solar form. 

--Raymond K.

ps. sorry if it seems like I am hijacking this thread


On Nov 20, 2007 9:56 PM, Oscar <oscar at oscarm.org> wrote:


	Paul M Jones wrote:
	> While this helps with CSS based forms and (pseudo-) semantic XHTML, it
	> probably won't do the trick for you if you're required to use tables for
	> forms. 
	>
	> Perhaps it's time for an additional table-based form helper?  Happy to
	> take contributions there.
	>
	
	
	I have to ask, but why are you using a table specifically to format the
	form?  If you want a table like layout, you should be able to do it via
	CSS ...
	



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