Re: Partially display form elements

You can use the following hack (basic idea - to adapt): require_once 'HTML/QuickForm.php'; $form = new HTML_QuickForm('firstForm'); // The javascript showing/ hiding a "block" (set of contiguous rows) $js = <<<JS <script language='javascript'> //<![CDATA[ function switch_block( b ) { block = "block[" + b + "]" ; if ( document.getElementById( block ).style.display == 'none' ) { document.getElementById( block ).style.display = 'block' ; } else { document.getElementById( block ).style.display = 'none' ; } } //]]> </script> JS; echo $js; // The switcher $form->addElement( 'static', '', '', "<a href='javascript:switch_block( 1 )'>[+] show/ hide</a>" ) ; // The block to hide $display = 'block' ; //$display = ( your default conditions here ) ? 'block' : 'none' ; $mask_begin = " <div id='block[1]' style='display: {$display}'> <table><tr><td> " ; $mask_end = " </td></tr></table> </div> " ; $group = array() ; $group[] =& HTML_QuickForm::createElement( 'static', '', '', $mask_begin ) ; $group[] =& HTML_QuickForm::createElement( 'text', "title[1]" ) ; $group[] =& HTML_QuickForm::createElement( 'static', '', '', $mask_end ) ; $form->addGroup( $group, 'block', '', array( '&nbsp;', '&nbsp;', "<br/>" ), FALSE ); // Output the form $form->display(); HTH Ignatius Alejandro López Hernández thus spake on 2005-12-27 06:47:

Hello guys, I want to partially display elements of a form, I'm using HTML_QuickForm to make the form and I need to display just parts of the same because my form is very long. I want to make something like Mambo's/Joomla's content publishing script so that I need to display the HTML code within divs in order to create tabs, but if I use display() method it prints all of the form, is it possible to display only parts of the form? Thanks for your assistance