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styling form input elements
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9 years ago
Is the styling of form elements beyond the scope of jQuery UI? Standard text input, selects, radios, and checkboxes are the primary/only built-in html user interface for user interactions. I searched around but couldn't find any references to any talk about it.
I'm referring so something such as these:
http://www.emblematiq.com/lab/niceforms/
http://CustomFormElements.net/demopage.php
Having forms that worked with the theme roller would be awesome, or some selectable icon image mapped template.
The issues I've seen with most plug-ins that have done this is very poor keyboard support, which I find to be one of the top priorities if you're going to modify the default inputs. They should all have full functionality and fall back gracefully to real form elements. They should also work on any input element regardless of it's location or positioning. Should be a drop in replacement that would function on any site and not interfere with other js acting on those elements, such as validations or auto completes.
The niceforms is good, but the elements need to be in a specific dl dd dt layout and doesn't integrate theme roller. And Custom Form Elements is nice but it isn't jQuery. All the other implementations I've seen are so poor they're not worth mentioning. Google rolled their own which is very nice, but it isn't available to anyone else.
I think this would be of much use to many developers and am very surprised I couldn't find any references to such an idea.
I'm referring so something such as these:
http://www.emblematiq.com/lab/niceforms/
http://CustomFormElements.net/demopage.php
Having forms that worked with the theme roller would be awesome, or some selectable icon image mapped template.
The issues I've seen with most plug-ins that have done this is very poor keyboard support, which I find to be one of the top priorities if you're going to modify the default inputs. They should all have full functionality and fall back gracefully to real form elements. They should also work on any input element regardless of it's location or positioning. Should be a drop in replacement that would function on any site and not interfere with other js acting on those elements, such as validations or auto completes.
The niceforms is good, but the elements need to be in a specific dl dd dt layout and doesn't integrate theme roller. And Custom Form Elements is nice but it isn't jQuery. All the other implementations I've seen are so poor they're not worth mentioning. Google rolled their own which is very nice, but it isn't available to anyone else.
I think this would be of much use to many developers and am very surprised I couldn't find any references to such an idea.
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