[html-formfu] Adding a static image block

Alan Hicks ahicks at p-o.co.uk
Sat Jun 23 11:46:00 GMT 2007


Carl Franks wrote:
> On 18/06/07, Alan Hicks <ahicks at p-o.co.uk> wrote:
>> Is there a best practice to add a static image to a form that is
>> accessible at runtime?
>>
>> The image is a captcha image and needs to have the src attribute added
>> at runtime since the location changes depending on the referrer.
>>
>> The yaml extract is as follows
>>
>>    - type: block
>>      id: captcha_image
>>      tag: img
>>
>> If the yaml file contains attributes_xml: {src:
>> http://localhost:3000/feedback/captcha} all works ok with the rendered
>> tag as <img id="captcha_image"
>> src="http://localhost:3000/feedback/captcha"></img>
>>
>> As the block does not appear to have a name tag I don't seem able to
>> find it easily with get_element().
> 
> Sorry it's taken a while - I somehow archived this, without even
> seeing it arrive in my inbox!
> 
> All elements inherit a name() method from HTML::FormFu::Element, so
> even if it's not used in the rendering, so you can still assign a name
> for just this purpose.
> 
> Carl
> 

Thanks, just what I need,
Alan



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