Difference between revisions of "Form Element description"

Revision as of 09:14, 19 July 2011

Input

Used to enter free form text:

• label: The text which describes the component. Required.
• name: This value is used to access the value typed by the user. Required.
• type: This value constrain value type. Allowed types: text, date, link or folder.
• value: Here you can specify a default value for this component.
• width: The width of the component. Defaults to browser default HTML input width.
• height: The height of the component. Defaults to browser default HTML input height.

Checkbox

Best used to represent boolean data:

• label: The text which describes the component. Required.
• name: This value is used to access the value typed by the user. Required.

TextArea

Similar to Input but for bigger text:

• label: The text which describes the component. Required.
• name: This value is used to access the value typed by the user. Required.
• value: Here you can specify a default value for this component.
• width: The width of the component. Defaults to 300px.
• height: The height of the component. Defaults to 100px.

Select

In this case, the value can be selected from a list of predefined one. Every select component can contain an arbitrary number of options bigger than one.

• label: The text which describes the component. Required.
• name: This value is used to access the value selected by the user. Required.
• type: Actually can be only "simple". Simple means that only one option can be selected at a time. Defaults to "simple".
• width: The width of the component. Defaults to browser default HTML select width.
• height: The height of the component. Defaults to browser default HTML select height.

Option

• label: The text which describes the component. Required.
• value: This is the value of the option to be selected. Required.
• selected: Can be "true" or "false". Indicates if the option is selected by default or not. Defaults to "false".