[support] Non intrusive form layout change in 5.X

[Metzler, David]

Here's some things I might have tried, given access to the source. If
not then you've got a tough job ahead of you.  

* Wrap the whole thing in a fieldset, (you can always turn the borders
off if you don't like them).  This should give you more css control. 

* Try Using #prefix and #suffix to wrap the whole mess in a div to give
you more css control. 

* Change the checkboxes into a checkbox variable with #tree=true, this
makes the other box at the same level (Alternately you could aways tweek
the code to add 'Other' to the options array. 

* add the other box to the options array. 

Sorry , I realize these aren't complete solutions, but I thought I'd
share them anyway, in case you just needed some quick ideas. 

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 6:56 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] Non intrusive form layout change in 5.X

I've a list of checkboxes and a fieldtext:

default should show like:

[X] abc
[ ] def
[ ] ghi
...

[X] other

Other
[fieldtext]

It should be turned into:

[X] abc
[ ] def
[ ] ghi
...

[X] other [fieldtext]


I do know that the checkbox and the textfield are redundant... but
well that's what I've to obtain.


Generated HTML looks like:
<div class="form-item">
<label>Label </label>
<div class="form-checkboxes">
...

<div class="form-item">
<label class="option"><input type="checkbox" ...
class="form-checkbox" /> Altro</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>

<div class="form-item">
 <label for="blabla">Other: </label>
 <input type="text" maxlength="128" name="other"
id="other"  size="60" value="" class="form-text" />
</div>

Using css only I find pretty hard to make the textfield fall down and
align with the last item on the checkbox list since it is outside of
the div of the last item.
(float: right/left don't do the job).
It'd be nice to inject the textfield in the same div field of the
last checkbox... but this require to write a not obvious hard to
maintain theme_ function.

I bet other people faced the same problem so I think someone came up
with an elegant solution.


-- 
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
http://www.webthatworks.it

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