Kartesus asked:

How to customize controls

Tags: form 0.40 control

Hi, I am using the FormHelper to build a form. The default control for String properties seems to a <input/> field, but for some properties I want to use <textarea/> fields.

How can I customize this??

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Kashia answered:

An example:

class User
  property :name, String, :control => :string
  property :description, String, :control => :textarea
end

:string is the default setting for Strings.

Complete list of current :controls:

setting :control_map, :doc => 'Mappings of control names to controls', :default => {
  :fixnum => FixnumControl,
  :integer => FixnumControl,
  :float => FloatControl,
  :true_class => CheckboxControl,
  :boolean => CheckboxControl,
  :checkbox => CheckboxControl,
  :string => TextControl,
  :password => PasswordControl,
  :textarea => TextareaControl,
  :file => FileControl,
  :webfile => FileControl,
  :options => OptionsControl,
  :refers_to => RefersToControl,
  :has_one => RefersToControl,
  :belongs_to => RefersToControl,
  :has_many => HasManyControl,
  :many_to_many => HasManyControl,
  :joins_many => HasManyControl
}

This list can be retrieved at runtime using:

p Nitro::FormHelper::FormXmlBuilder.control_map

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