Sounds like an enhancement request for panelFormLayout to me
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:00 AM, Stephen Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? > >
