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Jency Thomas

applying style to html textarea

Hi,

I have a textarea whose style is set as follows:

<xforms:textarea style="width: 478px;height: 81px;" ref="instance('PremiumDetailsInstance')/PremiumDetails/PANE1/footertext" >

<xforms:label></xforms:label>

</xforms:textarea>

I need an html textarea which has format buttons like Font, size etc. So, I added the attribute mediatype=”text/html” in the <xforms:textarea>. But when I add the mediatype attribute, the style elements are lost. I could not get the height and width set for the textarea. Is there any way to retain the style of the control?

Thanks

Jency

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fl.schmitt

Re: applying style to html textarea

Hi Jency,

> I could not get the height and width set for the
> textarea. Is there any way to retain the style of the control?

You could put the xforms:textarea inside a xhtml:div and add the style
information to that div element. This should work, if i remeber correctly.

florian

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Jency Thomas

RE: applying style to html textarea

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Thanks Florian, it works; but except for the height attribute. The width
of the html textarea can be set by giving the style attribute to the
div. But the height can't be set. Seems it always takes its default
height. Is there any way to set the height too?

Thanks
Jency

-----Original Message-----
From: Florian Schmitt [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Florian Schmitt
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 11:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [ops-users] applying style to html textarea

Hi Jency,

> I could not get the height and width set for the
> textarea. Is there any way to retain the style of the control?

You could put the xforms:textarea inside a xhtml:div and add the style
information to that div element. This should work, if i remeber
correctly.

florian

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fl.schmitt

Re: applying style to html textarea

Hi,

2007/11/27, Jency Thomas <[hidden email]>:

Thanks Florian, it works; but except for the height attribute. The width
of the html textarea can be set by giving the style attribute to the
div. But the height can't be set. Seems it always takes its default
height. Is there any way to set the height too?

I just checked my code and found that i set the height via CSS - my textarea has:

<xforms:textarea
                    class="textarea-big"
                    ref="textdialog/inhalt"
                    mediatype="text/html"
                    style="width: 95%;"/>

and in orbeon.css, i put

.textarea-big {
height: 600px;
}

But changing orbeon.css is maybe not the best way to do this.

HTH
florian

Erik Bruchez

Re: applying style to html textarea

Administrator

> and in orbeon.css, i put
>
> .textarea-big {
> height: 600px;
> }
>
> But changing orbeon.css is maybe not the best way to do this.

Yes ;-) One good reason is that orbeon.css is really just there to
style the Orbeon Forms example apps, and it may change everytime you
update Orbeon Forms.

I think that better solutions include: including your own CSS file in
the theme stylesheet, adding the CSS inline in your theme stylesheet,
or adding it inline in your individual XHTML pages.

-Erik

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Jency Thomas

RE: applying style to html textarea

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Thank you...css worked for setting height attribute.

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Bruchez [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Erik Bruchez
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:22 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [ops-users] applying style to html textarea

> and in orbeon.css, i put
>
> .textarea-big {
> height: 600px;
> }
>
> But changing orbeon.css is maybe not the best way to do this.

Yes ;-) One good reason is that orbeon.css is really just there to
style the Orbeon Forms example apps, and it may change everytime you
update Orbeon Forms.

I think that better solutions include: including your own CSS file in
the theme stylesheet, adding the CSS inline in your theme stylesheet,
or adding it inline in your individual XHTML pages.

-Erik

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