I noticed that I can't disable the required icon if required="true" in a
tr:inputText.
So even though showRequired="false", the "*" character is still shown.
Looked at the docs and found that "It's a feature, not a bug".
<rant>
WTFBBQ?
Does anybody have an idea why the heck somebody explicitly put this into code?
If a Trinidad user wants to do that, how dare somebody else decide that it's
not allowed?
</rant>
Here's a specific use case where that make sense:
In a panelFormLayout, I'd like to have a row that contains two inputTexts, like
* First Name / Last Name ______________ ______________
I can do that with a panelLabelAndMessage and nesting the inputTexts in a
tr:PanelHorizontalLayout, but wait, there's a problem.
Usually I would set only the first tr:inputText to simple="true" (because only
the first
element's label and message are shown by panelLabelAndMessage).
But now the row looks like
* First Name / Last Name ______________
* ______________
The second asterisk just looks misplaced and ugly.
The "*" breaks horizontal alignment with other fields in the second column
and more importantly somehow the second field is now vertically misaligned.
So I try settings the second field to simple="true" also and add a tr:message
for it.
Argrgrgrgr! Now the validation failure message appears behind the second field
rather
than under it which completely breaks the page layout because the form gets too
wide.
So, please, can you make the inputText actually do what I tell it, when I say
required="true" showRequired="false"
Otherwise: Can anybody propose a solution that keeps fields and validation
messages
correctly aligned, so that I can have on row in a panelFormLayout contain two
fields?
