Re: Changes to HTML/Form.php

["Martin Jansen" <mail@martin-jansen.de>] > On 26 Aug 2001 02:45:38 +0200, Stig Sæther Bakken wrote: > > >["Martin Jansen" <mail@martin-jansen.de>] > >> I would like to change the methods in HTML/Form.php to accept a > >> parameter $class, which defines the value for the class="... > >> attribut of the form element. > >> > >> Does anyone object on doing this? > > > >What about having a more free "extra attributes" parameter where you > >can specify any extra attribute? > > While thinking about this, I stumbled over some problems: > When using the extra attributes, you have to decide on which > element the attributes should be assigned: When for example > calling displayTextRow() with some extra attributes, the > class does not know, on which tag this attributes should be > applied. To solve this problem, we would have to store the > extra attributes in complex arrays like > > $attributes = array > ("th" => array( > "class" => "class1", > "id" => "myid" > ), > "input" => array( > "class" => "class2" > ) > .... > ); > > . It isn't a big problem to implement something like this (at > least I think so), but I'm not sure, if people would start > using such a complex feature ... I think it'd be time to integrate HTML_Form with a template thingie when this need arises. - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@alltheweb.com> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway