FormBuilder and layout

[MangelMaxime]

Issue by juselius
Wednesday Jul 10, 2019 at 13:45 GMT
Originally opened as MangelMaxime/Thoth#153

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I'm toying with FormBuilder and I'm starting to find it quite useful. It makes the actual form implementation much clearer than when doing it by hand.

One thing eludes me: How do I control the layout of the generated forms? For example, I have a form for entering Firstname, Lastname and Gender, and I would like to have the fields one after the other on a single line. How can I do this?

[MangelMaxime]

Comment by MangelMaxime
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019 at 06:10 GMT

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Perhaps it's doable by implementing a custom field but I am not sure about that.

I am preparing a new version of this library to remove some of the limitations and will make sure to check this feature when doing so.

[MangelMaxime]

Comment by juselius
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019 at 07:45 GMT

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Sounds good. The best thing would be to decouple presentation and function. But that's easier said than done. The WebSharper folks had a few attempts at creating higher-level form builders, but I think they abandoned the projects in the end (but they used a very different approach). Ideally we would have one set of Fulma-like combinators and one set of validation combinators, coupled trough the FormBuilder MVU. Or something along those lines.