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Re: Does Xforms bind foce ajax

Posted by Erik Bruchez on
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/DMV-Forms-Example-tp27273p27285.html

According to the HTML DTD:

<!ELEMENT (SUB|SUP) - - (%inline;)* -- subscript, superscript -->

<!ENTITY % inline "#PCDATA | %fontstyle; | %phrase; | %special; |
%formctrl;">

<!ENTITY % formctrl "INPUT | SELECT | TEXTAREA | LABEL | BUTTON">

So it is perfectly legal to have an <input> inside a <span>. Of course
styling the <span> is not equivalent to styling the <input>.

Now back to your problem. Two things:

1. If most of your controls share styling attributes, you can use
"class" as discussed earlier.

2. If you are looking to do absolute positioning, then positioning the
<span> should work as well as positioning the <input>.

3. If really you want to move back the style to the <input>, you can do
this with XSLT in theme.xsl.

-Erik

Richard Braman wrote:

> Span tags are meant to format text, not inputs.
> please review the following code in IE and tell me what works:
>
> <html>
> <body>
> <form>
> <span style="font-size:11px;font-weight:bold">
> <input type="text" name="doesnotwork">
> </span>
> <input type="text" name="styley"
> style="font-size:11px;font-weight:bold">
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Putting this code in the native java is a buzkill.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Bruchez [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Erik Bruchez
> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:59 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: [ops-users] Does Xforms bind foce ajax
>
>
> Richard Braman wrote:
> > It seems when I switched to using x forms:bid, it sent tverything
> into > ajax.
>
> Not sure what you mean here.
>
> > I see at least one issue with ajax. The code below seems to puts a
>> span tag around the xforms input, which doesn't work on IE.
>
> Note that xforms-to-ajax-xhtml.xsl is no longer used: we should take it
> out of the code base (just did that in the CVS). The translation to HTML
> is now done natively in Java.
>
> This said, we do put <span> around <input>. But all the OPS examples do
> work with IE, and they too have <span> around <input>. What is the
> specific problem you are seeing?
>
> > What if I don't want to use AJAX?
>
> The only way for now is to use XForms Classic, but then you don't get
> any of the XForms improvements in OPS 3.0. In other words, you get
> fairly limited XForms support with Classic.
>
> -Erik
>
>
>
>
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