forms

Styling Forms Ruby on Rails 2 - Easy Question

I am new to Rails so this is probably an easy question but can't find anything that seems to explain it well. How do I style forms in rails to. When I try to use the default styling for input (for example) it styles my text field and create button the same. Is there a built in convention or do I have to add some sort of helper. If it i...

Focus input field with JQuery without selecting current value text

$("#myinputfield").focus(); Doing that on an input field with it's value already set causes the current value to be selected. How can I focus the field without selecting the text? ...

"Please confirm which user you are changing the password for"

So I just made a change password form for my rails app. It's just like any other very typical password change form. So after a few times testing it out I started seeing a popup box saying "Please confirm which user you are changing the password for" Now this really freaked me out a bit since I know I did not write any code to do such ...

jQuery detect form changes

Hello everybody! Hope to get a little help from you guys. Im using this script when detecting if a form has changed or not. If so, when I click a href link with a certain class a confirm window will popup. var formChanged = false; $(document).ready(function() { $('#my_form input[type=text].editable, #my_form textarea.editable').each...

Submit with checkbox? No javascript

Is there any way to submit a form when a user clicks on a checkbox? Think of a todo list. When the user clicks on the checkbox, it updates the todo entry in the database saying its done. Can this be done without using javascript? ...

How to switch from table to div for FORM layout?

I'm noticing most folks are talking about using DIVs and CSS for label, textbox pairs. How would one convert a table such as: <table> <tr> <td><some Label1> </td> <td><some TextBox1> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><some Label2> </td> <td><some TextBox2> </td> </tr> ... </table> From using a table into say a div with CSS, a sample would be help...

Using a file form field with a Java servlet

I am tring to retrieve a filename or the file itself for use in a java servlet (from a web form). I have a file form field: <form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="SaveDictionary.do"> <label> <input type="file" name="dictionary_file" id="dictionary_file" /> <br /> </label> <label> ...

CSS form layout question

I have the following element on my form: <li> <label class="fixed" for="Interests">Program genre interests:</label> <label for="Sports"><%=Html.CheckBox("Sports")%>Sports</label> <label for="Comedy"><%=Html.CheckBox("Comedy")%>Comedy</label> <label for="News"><%=Html.CheckBox("News")%>News</label> <label for="Drama">...

Cancelling Windows Forms Events

I have a windows form. It has a ComboBox and a DataGrid I have a Leave event on my combobox and I have a double click event on my datagrid row The idea is that on leaving the combobox, if the value of the combo box changed than use the new value to reload the datagrid. Let's say the combobox is displaying a value of 1 and for that va...

Hiding Checkbox & Assigning Value - Ruby on Rails - Easy Question...

I am trying to hide a checkbox and assign a default value of 1 such that the submit button only shows. Here is my form. Just wondering as the proper format as I am new to rails. I think you can do this with helpers but was wondering if I can just include it in the form. Here is the form: <% remote_form_for [@post, Vote.new] do |f| %> ...

Form wont stay on top. How do I keep my excel form from hiding behind other windows after I browse for file?

I have a vb.net program that opens up an excel workbook and runs a macro ("Report") in that workbook when a button is clicked. //Workbook with macro and form xlWorkbook = xlApp.Workbooks.Open("W:Data\Excel Program.xls") //Macro: xlApp.Run("Report") //Macro opens form from workbook. I browse for my two .csv files //and the...

Why is this render :partial line iterating my collection twice?

Given these relationships: class Account < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :employments has_many :people, :through => :employments accepts_nested_attributes_for :employments end class Employment < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :account belongs_To :person end I'm trying to list the employment records for an account: <% form_for...

changing button text in OpenFileDialog in C#.net

Does anyone knows how to change text on button in OpenFileDialog in Windows.Forms in C#.NET? ...

How to include drupal form elements in a data table

I have a data table which is populated with data unrelated to drupal content (from a third party system). The data relates to photos which must be approved / flagged as inappropriate. So I'm writing a Drupal admin module which should moderate this content. So far, I have built a table using theme('table',...) which shows 1 photo per row...

User configurable forms with php and mysql

An online application we are building (php & mysql) requires users to be able to create their own forms for data capture and record this data in a database, respecting the existing ORM's. If the forms where "hard coded" then we would simply set the db tables up to store the normalised data ourselves however as our users define the form ...

Rails Restful actions Index Put

I have frequently run into the situation where I want to update many records at once - like GMail does with setting many messages "read" or "unread". Rails encourages this with the 'update' method on an ActiveRecord class - Comment.update(keys, values) Example - http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/7495 This is great functionality, bu...

cancel a submit in jquery?

Hi all, im doing a form validation and I want to validate the input fields when "on submit" if error Im using jquery.scrollTo to go to error: $('#form_inscripcion').submit(function() { //se traen todos los inputs del formulario var $inputs = $('#form_inscripcion :input'); $inputs.each(function() { var encontro_error = validar($(th...

mvc redirect to the same form , but with err variables set

Hello, I hope this makes enough sense and someone can give me some feedback on this My problem is how to get back to the same form on errors found, but with the error values in place. As you would normally postback to the same script and set the variables as you go. Now I am in the situation, that when I do the validation and try to sh...

To populate select options at backend using Symfony?

the symfony form is, 'nation' =>new sfWidgetFormChoice(array('choices' => NationPeer::getAllNation())), 'township' =>new sfWidgetFormChoice(array('choices' => TownshipPeer::getAllTownship())), On selecting the nation (like India) it should populate township(with the township within India). I Dont want to use Javascripts! ...

CSS Grid System for Forms (Multi-Column)

For future reference here is the final result with pixel perfect precision: The CSS code: ._25 { width: 21%; display: inline; float: left; margin-left: 2%; margin-right: 2%; } ._50 { width: 46%; display: inline; float: left; margin-left: 2%; margin-right: 2%; } ._75 { width: 71%; displa...