Inline CSS in forms, for real?

Rails
1

So, I use a form helper and it works nicely. Then I look at the code
and I find myself somewhat annoyed:

I obviously have no issue with hidden inputs, but WHY OH WHY are they
inside a completely unnecessary div with completely unnecessary INLINE
css?

With that being said, aside from a monkey patch, what’s the best way
to override this helper to get rid of that junk?

2

cult hero wrote:

So, I use a form helper and it works nicely. Then I look at the code
and I find myself somewhat annoyed:

I obviously have no issue with hidden inputs, but WHY OH WHY are they
inside a completely unnecessary div with completely unnecessary INLINE
css?

Well for one thing, the

is not “completely unnecessary.” The HTML
will not validate without it (or some other valid element. tags
are now allowed to be direct children of tags.

Output from W3C HTML validator:

Line 11, Column 52: document type does not allow element “input” here;
missing one of “ins”, “del”, “h1”, “h2”, “h3”, “h4”, “h5”, “h6”, “p”,
“div”, “address”, “fieldset” start-tag

✉
The mentioned element is not allowed to appear in the context in which
you’ve placed it; the other mentioned elements are the only ones that
are both allowed there and can contain the element mentioned. This might
mean that you need a containing element, or possibly that you’ve
forgotten to close a previous element.

One possible cause for this message is that you have attempted to put a
block-level element (such as “

” or “

”) inside an inline
element (such as “”, “”, or “”).

As for the inline style, I’m not sure if all that is necessary, but I’d
venture to guess that Rails might be using some shared code in order to
be more reusable. Having the extra styles doesn’t really hurt anything
anyway AFAIK.

3

Ahhh. You and I are using different doc types.

A hidden fieldset makes more sense.

And the inline CSS doesn’t hurt anything per se, but if you’re a
control freak about your HTML that’s a real eyesore and there’s no way
in the configuration to do anything about a number of defaults like
that.

4

im aren’t expert in nothing, but I think the inline does not work in
most current versions of browsers.
Sorry about my bad english.xD

On 26 mar, 19:42, cult hero [email protected] wrote:

With that being said, aside from a monkey patch, what’s the best way
to override this helper to get rid of that junk?

–
Twitter[Coisas Pessoais & Importantes]: http://twitter.com/Hugolnx
Buzz[Coisas Importantes]: http://www.google.com/profiles/hugoLnx#buzz
Github: HugoLnx (HugoLnx) · GitHub
Google: http://www.google.com/profiles/hugoLnx

5

HugoLnx wrote:

im aren’t expert in nothing, but I think the inline does not work in
most current versions of browsers.
Sorry about my bad english.xD

Where did you get that idea? I don’t know of any modern web browser that
doesn’t support all the CSS in style=“margin:0;padding:0;display:inline”

The only thing I can think of that might be getting you confused is that
some browsers (okay really only the stupid one that needs no
introduction) would be “display: inline-block;” All modern browsers
AFAIK support “display: inline;”