Change formatting of edit forms?

[David A. Bayly]

Jim wants to add attributes like id = "xxx" to form field elements. 
metadata doesn't allow that (I wrote the custom form scripts). He's 
actually raised an important question about accessibility of forms 
generated by Manila.  His preferred layout if I undertstodd him is

<label id = "foo">Foo</label><input type = 'text' id = 'foo'  name = 
"meta_foo'  ...>

The point being that the id value helps associate the text Foo with 
the  form element whose postarg name will be foo (or meta_foo).

This needs changes to metadata and is a great idea for the next version .




>I'm not quite clear what it is you want. Are you saying that in addition
>to the standard "Title" and "Text" fields, you want additional fields?
>If so, MetaData will do that.
>
>Are you saying that you'd like additional attributes for the "Title" and
>"Text" fields? If so, I don't know what would do that, except hacking
>Userland's code. And that's not a good idea.
>
>Anyone else?
>
>Scott
>
>On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 09:01, Jim Byrne wrote:
>>  Scott,
>>
>>  MetaData doesn't solve the problem, as it won't let me add attributes to the
>>  form fields; so I can't add 'id', or 'tabindex'. Any other ideas?
>>
>>  All the best,
>>  Jim
>>
>>  on 12/18/02 5:10 PM, Scott Granneman at scott at granneman.com wrote:
>>
>>  > MetaData plugin is your friend.
>>  >
>>  > Scott
>>  >
>>  > On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 09:54, Jim Byrne wrote:
>>  >> Is it possible to change the HTML of the Manila 'Edit this page' forms? I
>>  >> want to be able to add tab index, Fieldset, labels etc to make the forms
>>  >> more accessible to people using screen readers.
>>  >>
>>  >> Thanks,
>>  >> Jim
>>  >>
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