Posted by Richard Braman on
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/DMV-Forms-Example-tp27273p27297.html

Aside form my styling problem the other thing I don't get is how:

                <div style="position:absolute; left:615px; top:218px;
width:13px; height:14px;">
                        <xforms:input pdf:x-position="707"
pdf:y-position="891" xhtml:type="checkbox" bind="c1-1"
xhtml:style="height:14px;width:13px;margin:0px;font-size:10px"/>
                </div>

Becomes:
<div style="position:absolute; left:615px; top:218px; width:13px;
height:14px;">
<span id="xforms-element-93" class="xforms-control xforms-input"
type="checkbox"
style="height:14px;width:13px;margin:0px;font-size:10px"><span
class="xforms-date-display"></span>
<input type="text" name="xforms-element-93" value=""
class="xforms-input-input xforms-type-string">
<span class="xforms-showcalendar xforms-type-string"></span></span>
<label class="xforms-alert xforms-alert-inactive"
for="xforms-element-93"></label></div>

Also , why is there this code, which I don't want or need.  I am not
tring to show a calendar.
<span class="xforms-showcalendar xforms-type-string"></span>
<span class="xforms-date-display"></span>

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Braman [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 8:17 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: RE: [ops-users] Does Xforms bind foce ajax


In your solution I would need a different class for each input. Each
input has a different height, width, font size.  
I also speficied the input as type="text", which is not a date picker,
but rather a text box.  It is just as arbitrary to move my style to a
span tag.  If this were being done in XML, no problem to fix, but now
its stuffed in with the native code.

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Alessandro Vernet
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 8:20 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [ops-users] Does Xforms bind foce ajax


Hi Richard,

Since there is not a one to one mapping between XForms controls and HTML
elements, XForms control are often rendered by putting together a number
of HTML elements. This is the case for <xforms:input>, which appearance
can change as runtime from an input field to a date picker, and vice
versa. For instance, an <xforms:input> input is rendered as a span that
contains an input form element, a span that contains the date selected
with the date picker, and a span that contains an image you can click on
to show the date picker. If in the XForms code we find a class or style
attribute, on which one of those HTML elements should this attribute be
copied? The answer is always going to be arbitrary because we don't know
what you are trying to style. Should it be on the input form element,
the image? We chose to consistently copy the style and class attributes
on the container, in this case the span element.

What about using a class on the input? E.g. <xforms:input
class="large-input">. Then in CSS you do:

.large-input input { my CSS that applies to the HTML input form element
}

Alex

On 2/9/06, Richard Braman <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > 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


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