JAFFA Editbox Widget

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<Portlet:EditBox . . .

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Overview

This widget provides 2 variations of editbox.

Standard Editbox
Text Area

Sample

<Portlet:EditBox field="fieldLinkedToCCAndCached"/>

General Attributes for Edit Box Tags

Attribute Name	Mandatory/Optional	Description
autoTabTo	Optional	Allows the user to specify another field to tab to, once the maximum number of characters have been entered in this field
columns	Optional	The number of columns to display for this editbox. The default is 50
field	Mandatory	Name of associated getter and setter on form bean
fontname	Optional	Sets a font name
fontsize	Optional	Sets a font size
height	Optional	Sets the style height
italics	Optional	Sets the style to italics
password	Optional	Creates an editbox of type password, this causes each character typed to be displayed as a '*'
rows	Optional	Sets the number of rows the editbox should have. By default this is "1", and a normal editbox is created, anything larger than "1" will create a HTML 'textarea'.
trim	Optional	This will cause the value in the field to be automatically trimmed of leading and trailing spaces
validate	Optional	On leaving the field will force server side validation
width	Optional	Sets the style width

Events

Event Name	Description
do_widget name_EVENT_VALIDATE()	This event is a server side leave field validation

Standard Edit Box

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Overview

A Standard text box in HTML is created.

In Browser

JSP Code

<Portlet:EditBox field="fieldLinkedToCCAndCached"/>

How they work:

This widget creates a standard textbox. The css style properties can be set from the various style attributes. If no attributes are set then a standard editbox will be displayed. The autoTabTo='' attribute allows a field that you wish to tab to , to be specified. The trim attribute allows a length to be specified, on leaving the field the length of the value shall be trimmed. Setting the attribribute password="true" will change the HTML input type to input="password", this then creates a standard password field.

Text Area

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Overview

A Standard text area in HTML is created.

In Browser

JSP Code

<Portlet:EditBox field="fieldLinkedToCCAndCached" rows="5"/>

How they work:

This widget creates a standard text area by setting the rows="" attrbute to the desired amount. Anything over one will set it. The css style properties can be set from the various style attributes. If no attributes are set then a standard editbox will be displayed. The autoTabTo='' attribute allows a field that you wish to tab to , to be specified. The trim attribute allows a length to be specified, on leaving the field the length of the value shall be trimmed. Setting the attribribute password="true" will change the HTML input type to input="password", this then creates a standard password field.

Controlling the widget CSS

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Controlling the look of the Editbox by CSS

The drop down widget's corresponding CSS can be found in 'source/html/jaffa/css/widgets/editbox.css'. This CSS allows you to change these two elements textarea and input.