Replace table tags in edit/publish forms?
Posted: 29 April 2008 05:11 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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This isn’t to just be “tables=bad” in any way!  I’d just like to style some of my custom field groups in such a way (particularly putting stuff next to each other) that the current mark up really makes difficult.

What about a simple unordered list?

<li id="custom_field_name" class="type_of_input(select/input/textarea...)">
  <
label class="required" for=....</label>
  <
input type=... />
  <
div id="xhtmlWrapper"><ul><li>check spelling....</div>
</
li>

That’d make my day. Something like that code, about 5 lines of jQuery and 20 lines of CSS and we could get rid of all the images/inline js too.

If each fieldset had some sort of class added to it (or a parent container) that was the field group name and/or the weblog, man, we could really get down. Customizing the look/workflow for different content types to make the experience more intuitive for clients.

Thanks for reading.  Sorry if this has been requested before. I’d happily volunteer to put my keyboard where my mouth is.

Will

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Posted: 29 April 2008 05:49 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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I’d probably wait for EE2 to come out before undertaking a major rewrite of the control panel, but this should already be possible using an extension. Basically, you could rewrite the whole CP if your were so inclined.

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Posted: 29 April 2008 10:48 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Yes, I was thinking for ee2.  I haven’t looked into extension authoring.  Could you point me at a good place to start for CP hacking?

Thank you.
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Posted: 29 April 2008 12:16 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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There are a couple of extensions that could serve as a stating point.

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Posted: 29 April 2008 08:05 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Thanks very much Ingmar.

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