Multiple listboxes in one TV, possible?

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larsb Reply #1, 18 years, 2 months ago

Hey

Can I have multiple multi-select listboxes in one TV?

Screenshot that illustrates the question:

The manager template is in Danish, so don’t mind that. And yes, I made this image in Paint, since that is all I have on this work computer rolleyes

Thanks for reading, larsb

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dev_cw Reply #2, 18 years, 2 months ago

I don’t think so. Could you get away with multiple ts with one list each?

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larsb Reply #3, 18 years, 2 months ago

Yes, that was that I tried at first, and that works just fine, but it would just look a lot nicer if I could have everything piled together in one.
A workaround could be to have each listbox in it’s own tv, but then tweak the css to make it seem as there were only one.. hmm, looking at it now I see it’s build up by tables. That would probably need a bit more than just css tweaks I guess..
Is it possible to call a tv from within a tv?

larsb

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larsb Reply #4, 18 years, 2 months ago

Thank you for your input GaneshXL. I tried that solution but the list gets really really long.

I’m building a site for a bar here in Copenhagen, and the idea is that they can publish cocktail recipes and descriptions. I’m not a cocktail expert, but I would reckon that a complete list of cocktail ingredients could be very long.

However I tried outputting the TV with checkboxes instead, like so:

Now, as you can see in the firebug window at the bottom, a
is inserted after each checkbox. If only you could remove that
, you could probably float the checkboxes and make it look nice.
I tried finding the place in the php file where the
is inserted but I’m not very strong in php, so I wasn’t able to. I’m guessing it’s somewhere within one of these:

manager/includes/tmplvars.commands.inc.php
manager/includes/tmplvars.format.inc.php
manager/includes/tmplvars.inc.php

thanks, larsb

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sottwell Reply #5, 18 years, 2 months ago

What would happen if you did something like br {display:none;} in your css?

Otherwise, the formatting of the fields for checkbox TVs is on line 119 of the file manager/includes/tmplvars.inc.php:

$field_html .=  '<input type="checkbox" value="'.htmlspecialchars($itemvalue).'" id="tv_'.$i.'" name="tv'.$field_name.'[]" '. (in_array($itemvalue,$field_value)?" checked='checked'":"").' onchange="documentDirty=true;" /><label for="tv_'.$i.'">'.$item.'</label><br />';

and there the
tag is, right at the end of that line...

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