Hi, I’m new to rails and have hit a minor snag that google isn’t helping
with. Basically, I can’t get text fields or text areas to not include
size and cols attributes in the tags generated when using a form_for
… f.text_field … etc within my view. This results in my applied
styles being over ridden by the attribute values and, that kinda sucks.
Of course I can set the attributes, but that seems ridiculous. How can
I prevent these attributes from being generated so that the css can do
it’s rightful job? Thanks.
Bill
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:56 PM, William K. Hatch Jr.
[email protected] wrote:
Basically, I can’t get text fields or text areas to not include size and cols attributes in the tags generated when using a form_for … f.text_field … etc within my view. This results in my applied styles being over ridden by the attribute values and, that kinda sucks. Of course I can set the attributes, but that seems ridiculous. How can I prevent these attributes from being generated so that the css can do it’s rightful job?
You can’t, and shouldn’t – they’re required; see
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-TEXTAREA
That said, I’ve never had a problem applying CSS to tweak a textarea
with those attributes, so perhaps you have a different issue?
HTH,
Hassan S. ------------------------ [email protected]
twitter: @hassan
On May 25, 2010, at 9:23 AM, hassan.schroeder wrote:
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:56 PM, William K. Hatch Jr.
[email protected] wrote:
Basically, I can’t get text fields or text areas to not include size and cols attributes in the tags generated when using a form_for … f.text_field … etc within my view. This results in my applied styles being over ridden by the attribute values and, that kinda sucks. Of course I can set the attributes, but that seems ridiculous. How can I prevent these attributes from being generated so that the css can do it’s rightful job?
You can’t, and shouldn’t – they’re required; see
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-TEXTAREA
yes, although leaving them off doesn’t appear to cause problems. I think
making them required is at odds with separating presentation over
structure, however.
That said, I’ve never had a problem applying CSS to tweak a textarea
with those attributes, so perhaps you have a different issue?
And you would again be correct…;-( After posting, I experimented some
more and discovered the error; I had wrongly concluded that the
attributes were over riding the styles. Thanks.
Thanks.
hassan.schroeder wrote:
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:56 PM, William K. Hatch Jr.
[email protected] wrote:
Basically, I can’t get text fields or text areas to not include size and cols attributes in the tags generated when using a form_for … f.text_field … etc within my view. This results in my applied styles being over ridden by the attribute values and, that kinda sucks. Of course I can set the attributes, but that seems ridiculous. �How can I prevent these attributes from being generated so that the css can do it’s rightful job?
You can’t, and shouldn’t – they’re required; see
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-TEXTAREA
They are required in HTML 4.01. They, however, appear to be optional in
HTML5. Still should be there for now, but hopefully some future version
of Rails will drop them as a requirement. Waiting for Microsoft to
create a decent browser yet again.