Re: Re: [PEPr] Comment on HTML::HTML_QuickForm_ElementTable

On 5/24/06, Philippe Jausions <Philippe.Jausions@11abacus.com> wrote:

Justin Patrin wrote: On 24 May 2006 08:37:04 -0000, Fabio Ambrosanio <fabio@ambrosanio.com> wrote:

Fabio Ambrosanio (http://pear.php.net/user/fabamb) has commented on the proposal for HTML::HTML_QuickForm_ElementTable. Comment: and it can be useful if you want to have two or more tables with the same elements and obviously different names, like with group element

The elementTable is not supposed to be like a group. It is simply supposed to be a table holding other elements which already have their own names. It could possibly be a feature addition to make it behave like a group and add its own name to the names of its sub-elements, but I find this not particularly useful myself. I would suggest just adding any extra name you want straight into the name of the elements you add to the table. Seems like a nice QF element to add. I agree that the "element" in the "elementTable" name is kind of redundant. Although it probably means "table of elements" instead of "a table-shape element", "table" alone sounds better IMO.

True, but I still think ElementTable is better because it evokes a table of elements. Just Table makes it sound like it's a static table (to me).

I'm wondering (and I haven't looked into that at all) if that table could be set to be scrollable within a <div>, when using the standard renderer. This would be great for large/long tables of elements.

It certainly could be with an element template set. -- Justin Patrin