Malcolm Edgar <malcolm.edgar <at> gmail.com> writes:

ciao Malcolm,

> 
> Hi Lorenzo,
> 
> Regarding CLK-155 setting the <select> field to be readonly does not
> work as the browsers does not support this attribute. Why I don't
> know.
> 

right... I did I quick search in google, and here an explanation

http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/forms/_SELECT_READONLY.html

and here some possible solutions:

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/38371

> Also if you set the field to be disabled this wont work either, as the
> value will not be submitted with the form.
> 

I like this trick

http://psacake.com/web/jd.asp

> Your work around it possibly the only solution we have for this, i.e.
> replacing the <select> field with a <input type="text"/> TextField.
> Does anyone have any comments on this solution. I am trying to think
> of the possible problems this would create, JavaScript issues maybe?
> 

also this one will solve the problem, but I think that it will be difficult to
rollback from <input type="text"/> to a <select> if the form or the field is set
to readonly(false).

> Would you mind raising a JIRA issues on the other request:
> * FieldSet columns property
> * TabbedForm support error position
>

yes.

> regards Malcolm Edgar
> 

your framework it's simple great ! actually I spent more time choose and try the
framework (appfuse, wicket, etc.) and click it's the more productive that I
found

take care, Lorenzo

> On 1/9/07, Lorenzo Orselli <lorselli <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Malcolm,
> > thanks for the feedback,
> >
> > this is exactly what I need: different tab with different column so that I'm
> > free to better layout the label and fields on the form.
> >
> > I will also follow your suggestion for the large label position
> >
> > My main problem now is related to the bug that I opened (CLK-155) about the
> > QuerySelect's readonly flag: this force me to have two different page that 
> > havethe same layout but replacing QuerySelect with TextField and so have two 
> > class to maintain.
> >
> > Another issue that I found is whetever I set the position of the errors this 
> > on the tabbed form is always render on the top
> >
> > regards
> > Lorenzo
> >
> >

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