Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/18417 Project: Drupal Version: 4.5.2 Component: base system Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: jbond Updated by: gordon Status: patch When the textarea hook was first implemented it was only used in the post. But using the pre for functions other then javascript wil allow you to place html above the title, which maybe wanted, depending on the use. Javascript is the primary use, but I think there is other things that use it. As for debugging javascript, this is made extremely easy, actually easier than php by itself with the use of firefox/mozilla and venkman [1] the javascript debugger. [1] http://www.mozilla.org/projects/venkman/ gordon Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 5, 2005 - 19:54 : jbond Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/common.inc_8.patch (1.83 KB) This patch is for common.inc function form_textarea(). It adds two additional hooks for module writers. 1) A new hook "post-title" which works the same as "pre" and "post" but allows html to be inserted between the title of the element and the textarea. This makes it easier to insert a row of buttons (say) that sit just on top of the textarea. 2) A new hook "attributes" which takes an array() from modules that provide it and merges it into the $attributes array for the textarea. Wysywig editors typically need to add javascript handlers for things like onClick and this provides a simple way for the module to add them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 5, 2005 - 20:00 : jbond Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/common.inc_9.patch (1.83 KB) Apologies. the first patch had ms win line endings. This one should be unix line endings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 6, 2005 - 19:17 : gordon -1 I do not think that these 2 additional hooks are needed. This will really add alot of additional overhead as it is going to call every textarea hook 4 times for every textarea on a page. Besides these modifiaction can be handled better and cleaner in the javascript. If you take a look at Xinha/HTMLArea or FckEditor they both manipulate the dom once the page has loaded, and not during. This is a much better and cleaner method as it means that you can attach to any textarea with only a few commands. This is what javascript excels at. So I don't think this is needed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 6, 2005 - 20:03 : Dries I was about to suggest the same as Gordon. IMO, these hooks aren't really necessary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 6, 2005 - 22:04 : Bèr Kessels -1 from me too. More hookss are unnecasary. What *is* neccesary, thoiugh, is to mve the "pre" to inbetween the title and the area! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 6, 2005 - 22:23 : jbond I'd agree with you, perhaps, about the attributes tag. I don't think I agree about "post-title". I think it's highly likely that a module would use "pre" or "post- title" but not both. And since these are all in memory hooks I hardly see that calling 4 module hooks instead of 2 is going to make any performance difference at all, at all. Following your logic there's no need for "pre" either, because you can implement that in javascript from "post". Better and cleaner? I find php a hell of a lot easier to code and debug in than Javascript. But then that's just me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ March 6, 2005 - 22:32 : chx -1 the way JS should be that you insert an onload handler and there is no other trace of JS in your code. use DOM.