placing a checkbox directly after a wrapped label in a panelForm

[Martin Denham <mj...@gmail.com>]

I have a very log label to the left of a checkbox in a panelForm.  The
prompt normally wraps round and I would like to display the checkbox on
the end of the wrapped line, underneath the first line like this:

Checkbox label with a very long sentence which pushes the checkbox all
the way 
over to the right even though the text wraps [x]

But what I get is:
Checkbox label with a very long sentence which pushes the checkbox all
the way  [x]
over to the right even though the text wraps

And the checkbox can be very hard to see on the edge of the page.

You can see a simplified fragment of my current code below.  The label
and checkbox are wrapped in a panelGroup to prevent the long label
displacing all the other labels over to the right.

<af:form>
<af:panelForm >
<af:panelGroup layout="horizontal">
<af:outputLabel value="Checkbox label with a very long sentence which
pushes the checkbox all the way over to the right even though the text
wraps" />
<af:selectBooleanCheckbox />
</af:panelGroup>
</af:panelForm>
</af:form>

Thanks

Martin

RE: placing a checkbox directly after a wrapped label in a panelForm

[Martin Denham <mj...@gmail.com>]

Thanks Gabrielle,

Brilliant,  I had tried both separately before, but setting both
simple="true" and removing layout="horizontal" gives the required
behaviour.

Our apps have historically had all the checkboxes on the right.  I don't
know why.  I might suggest a change in the future.

Thanks

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: Gabrielle Crawford [mailto:gabrielle.crawford@oracle.com] 
Sent: 24 May 2006 19:26
To: adffaces-user@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: placing a checkbox directly after a wrapped label in a
panelForm


Try 

- set simple to true on the selectBooleanCheckbox
- if it still doesn't work try removing layout="horizontal" 

<af:form>
<af:panelForm >
<af:panelGroup >
<af:outputLabel value="Checkbox label with a very long sentence which
pushes the checkbox all the way over to the right even though the text
wraps" /> <af:selectBooleanCheckbox simple="true"/> </af:panelGroup>
</af:panelForm> </af:form>

Can I ask why you don't use the text attribute, which puts the checkbox
first and the text after? This is usually more readable.

<af:form>
<af:panelForm >
<af:selectBooleanCheckbox text="Checkbox text with a very long sentence
which pushes the checkbox all the way over to the right even though the
text wraps" /> </af:panelForm> </af:form>

Thanks,

Gabrielle

Martin Denham wrote:

>I have a very log label to the left of a checkbox in a panelForm.  The 
>prompt normally wraps round and I would like to display the checkbox on

>the end of the wrapped line, underneath the first line like this:
>
>Checkbox label with a very long sentence which pushes the checkbox all 
>the way over to the right even though the text wraps [x]
>
>But what I get is:
>Checkbox label with a very long sentence which pushes the checkbox all 
>the way  [x] over to the right even though the text wraps
>
>And the checkbox can be very hard to see on the edge of the page.
>
>You can see a simplified fragment of my current code below.  The label 
>and checkbox are wrapped in a panelGroup to prevent the long label 
>displacing all the other labels over to the right.
>
><af:form>
><af:panelForm >
><af:panelGroup layout="horizontal">
><af:outputLabel value="Checkbox label with a very long sentence which 
>pushes the checkbox all the way over to the right even though the text 
>wraps" /> <af:selectBooleanCheckbox />
></af:panelGroup>
></af:panelForm>
></af:form>
>
>Thanks
>
>Martin
>
>  
>

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Re: placing a checkbox directly after a wrapped label in a panelForm

[Gabrielle Crawford <ga...@oracle.com>]

Try 

- set simple to true on the selectBooleanCheckbox
- if it still doesn't work try removing layout="horizontal" 

<af:form>
<af:panelForm >
<af:panelGroup >
<af:outputLabel value="Checkbox label with a very long sentence which
pushes the checkbox all the way over to the right even though the text
wraps" />
<af:selectBooleanCheckbox simple="true"/>
</af:panelGroup>
</af:panelForm>
</af:form>

Can I ask why you don't use the text attribute, which puts the checkbox first and the text after? This is usually more readable.

<af:form>
<af:panelForm >
<af:selectBooleanCheckbox text="Checkbox text with a very long sentence which
pushes the checkbox all the way over to the right even though the text
wraps" />
</af:panelForm>
</af:form>

Thanks,

Gabrielle

Martin Denham wrote:

>I have a very log label to the left of a checkbox in a panelForm.  The
>prompt normally wraps round and I would like to display the checkbox on
>the end of the wrapped line, underneath the first line like this:
>
>Checkbox label with a very long sentence which pushes the checkbox all
>the way 
>over to the right even though the text wraps [x]
>
>But what I get is:
>Checkbox label with a very long sentence which pushes the checkbox all
>the way  [x]
>over to the right even though the text wraps
>
>And the checkbox can be very hard to see on the edge of the page.
>
>You can see a simplified fragment of my current code below.  The label
>and checkbox are wrapped in a panelGroup to prevent the long label
>displacing all the other labels over to the right.
>
><af:form>
><af:panelForm >
><af:panelGroup layout="horizontal">
><af:outputLabel value="Checkbox label with a very long sentence which
>pushes the checkbox all the way over to the right even though the text
>wraps" />
><af:selectBooleanCheckbox />
></af:panelGroup>
></af:panelForm>
></af:form>
>
>Thanks
>
>Martin
>
>  
>