[Catalyst] Styling HTML::Widget elements

[Carl Franks]

This is normally linked to, to do that, though I still haven't tried it myself.

http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/InForm/margin.htm

Carl



On 21/04/06, Tobias <t at funkreich.de> wrote:
> I'm checking out (Catalyst::Plugin::)HTML::Widget at the moment and have come
> across a problem styling the label tag. The HTML generated by HTML::Widget
> looks like this:
>
> <label for="login_user" id="login_user_label">
> Username:<input class="textfield" id="login_user" name="user" size="25"
> type="text" />
> </label>
>
> Now styling the <label> tag and setting a fixed width for it to get all input
> elements vertically aligned does not work, because the <label> tag is wrapped
> around the <input> tag and thus the specified width is for both, the <label>
> AND the <input> tag. Because the <label> tag already has a "for" attribute it
> is not neccessary to put it around the associated <input> element. What do you
> think?
>
> The following would be much easier to style IMHO:
>
> <label for="login_user" id="login_user_label">Username:</label>
> <input class="textfield" id="login_user" name="user" size="25" type="text" />
>
> I'd be glad to hear that someone has already found a CSS solution to this or
> if HTML::Widget should be patched to have the <label> tag before and not around
> the input element tags (actually that's also what the W3C does in the examples:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/interact/forms.html#edef-LABEL)
>
> Sorry if this is not directly Catalyst related.
>
> Thanx!
>
> Toby
>
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