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FillInForm and input field style
Greetings:
I am experiencing an odd behavior with some form input fields.
The input elements have a style attribute defined to control the
width of the field, but it seems to be ignored. I am using
FillInForm and I was wondering if there is something special I
need to consider to ensure the specified width is maintained.
Thanks,
Steve
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Stephen Bardsley
RLW Inc.
Malta, NY
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RE: FillInForm and input field style
Posted by Stephen Bardsley <sb...@rlwinc.com>.
Josh:
I found the problem to be a typo in my code (html in a "here document").
I was passing an unterminated <input> element. It was missing the '/>'
I fixed that and things starting working fine. Thanks.
Steve
P.S. -- In case you are curious, here are the details of exactly what
happened. There was a peculiar transformation of the html occurring,
and below is what I observed:
Following is the buggy code fragment before and after ASP processing.
The '==>' points to the offending line. Note that after processing,
the <input> tag has been truncated. The attributes that should be
with the <input> tag have been generously included with the </td>
element. [This was tough to discover because there was no error
indication other than text entry fields that were not as wide as I
wanted them.]
Before:
<td style="border: none; width: auto;">
<input name="$form_element_name" type="text"
==> style="some style stuff"
</td>
</td>
<td style="some style stuff">
$req
</td>
After
<td style="border: none; width: auto;">
==> <input value="1" >
==> </td style="some style stuff" name="serial_port-52-serial_port_id" type="text">
<td style="some style stuff">
<b>*</b>
</td>
This is the (good) corrected code fragment before and after ASP
processing. You will notice it is part of a table, which has been
pruned for clarity). The '==>' points to the corrected line:
Before:
<td style="border: none; width: auto;">
<input name="$form_element_name" type="text"
==> style="some style stuff" />
</td>
</td>
<td style="some style stuff">
$req
</td>
After:
<td style="border: none; width: auto;">
<input value="1" style="some style stuff"
==> name="serial_port-105-serial_port_id" type="text" />
</td>
<td style="some style stuff">
<b>*</b>
</td>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Chamas [mailto:josh@chamas.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 1:51 AM
> To: Stephen Bardsley
> Cc: Apache::ASP Mailing List
> Subject: Re: FillInForm and input field style
>
>
> Stephen Bardsley wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I am experiencing an odd behavior with some form input fields.
> > The input elements have a style attribute defined to control the
> > width of the field, but it seems to be ignored. I am using
> > FillInForm and I was wondering if there is something special I
> > need to consider to ensure the specified width is maintained.
> >
>
> So what does the tag look like in your script, & what does it
> look like afterwards in the HTML output?
>
> HTML::FillInForm is what is used to do the form filling, so you
> can delve in there to find out why it is parsing things wrong
> for you, if you do not get any other answer.
>
> If this is merely a matter of using styles, when you might use
> instead SIZE & MAXLENGTH attributes, you should look into using
> those instead.
>
> Regards,
>
> Josh
>
>
>
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RE: FillInForm and input field style
Posted by Stephen Bardsley <sb...@rlwinc.com>.
Josh:
I found the problem to be a typo in my code (html in a "here document").
I was passing an unterminated <input> element. It was missing the '/>'
I fixed that and things starting working fine. Thanks.
Steve
P.S. -- In case you are curious, here are the details of exactly what
happened. There was a peculiar transformation of the html occurring,
and below is what I observed:
Following is the buggy code fragment. The '==>' points to the
offending line. Note that after processing, the <input> tag
has been truncated. The attributes that should be with the
<input> tag have been generously included with the </td>
element. [This was tough to discover because there was no
error indication other than text entry fields that were not
as wide as I wanted them.]
Before:
<td style="border: none; width: auto;">
<input name="$form_element_name" type="text"
==> style="some style stuff"
</td>
</td>
<td style="some style stuff">
$req
</td>
After
<td style="border: none; width: auto;">
==> <input value="1" >
==> </td style="some style stuff" name="serial_port-52-serial_port_id" type="text">
<td style="some style stuff">
<b>*</b>
</td>
This is the (good) corrected code fragment before and after ASP
processing. You will notice it is part of a table, which has
been pruned for clarity). The '==>' points to the corrected
line:
Before:
<td style="border: none; width: auto;">
<input name="$form_element_name" type="text"
==> style="some style stuff" />
</td>
</td>
<td style="some style stuff">
$req
</td>
After:
<td style="border: none; width: auto;">
<input value="1" style="some style stuff"
==> name="serial_port-105-serial_port_id" type="text" />
</td>
<td style="some style stuff">
<b>*</b>
</td>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh Chamas [mailto:josh@chamas.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 1:51 AM
> To: Stephen Bardsley
> Cc: Apache::ASP Mailing List
> Subject: Re: FillInForm and input field style
>
>
> Stephen Bardsley wrote:
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I am experiencing an odd behavior with some form input fields.
> > The input elements have a style attribute defined to control the
> > width of the field, but it seems to be ignored. I am using
> > FillInForm and I was wondering if there is something special I
> > need to consider to ensure the specified width is maintained.
> >
>
> So what does the tag look like in your script, & what does it
> look like afterwards in the HTML output?
>
> HTML::FillInForm is what is used to do the form filling, so you
> can delve in there to find out why it is parsing things wrong
> for you, if you do not get any other answer.
>
> If this is merely a matter of using styles, when you might use
> instead SIZE & MAXLENGTH attributes, you should look into using
> those instead.
>
> Regards,
>
> Josh
>
>
>
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Re: FillInForm and input field style
Posted by Josh Chamas <jo...@chamas.com>.
Stephen Bardsley wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I am experiencing an odd behavior with some form input fields.
> The input elements have a style attribute defined to control the
> width of the field, but it seems to be ignored. I am using
> FillInForm and I was wondering if there is something special I
> need to consider to ensure the specified width is maintained.
>
So what does the tag look like in your script, & what does it
look like afterwards in the HTML output?
HTML::FillInForm is what is used to do the form filling, so you
can delve in there to find out why it is parsing things wrong
for you, if you do not get any other answer.
If this is merely a matter of using styles, when you might use
instead SIZE & MAXLENGTH attributes, you should look into using
those instead.
Regards,
Josh
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