I’m having some problem getting FWP to create a label for any form
elements… has it been so long since I did it the Freeway way that I’m
missing something?
All I’ve done is to insert my cursor in the html box and insert the form
items from the menu… it doesn’t generate a label element.
I can’t imagine anything beyond that I’m not doing, but I admittedly have
been hand-coding my forms for years, so I’m unused to FWP’s method. If I
could figure out how to get it to make a label, then I’ll try and help.
I can confirm that I’m seeing the same thing as Ernie here. Are you drawing the form element on the page, or inserting it inline within another text container?
Walter
On Feb 22, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Ernie Simpson wrote:
Hey Dave -
All I’ve done is to insert my cursor in the html box and insert the form
items from the menu… it doesn’t generate a label element.
I can’t imagine anything beyond that I’m not doing, but I admittedly have
been hand-coding my forms for years, so I’m unused to FWP’s method. If I
could figure out how to get it to make a label, then I’ll try and help.
Okay, I see it now - you have to highlight the text next to the form item
and click the “Label” tick-box in the Inspector, then choose which id it
belongs to. Well, that’s obvious.
The problem, and you’re probably already seen this Dave, is the whole line
(checkbox, label, etc) is wrapped in durned p tag. You can make a span type
to grab just the label, but that’s not the same as you’re asking. FWP will
apply a normal class style to the whole enclosing paragraph.
Again, there are half a dozen ways to target those label tags with CSS
selectors, but I cannot find any way to kick FWP into adding straight-up
class attributes to the label tags.
Just to clarify, and for anyone else that’s reading this:
Labels are sections of text that bring an input item (text field, checkbox, radio button etc) into focus when clicked. Freeway automatically adds a label in the following two cases:
You draw a checkbox or radio button by selecting the respective options from the HTML Item menu in the toolbar
You insert a checkbox or radio button to the page from the Insert menu when not in text editing mode (i.e. not an inflow item)
If you’re inserting a checkbox or radio button inflow you’ll just get the input item with no label. We took the decision that if you’re working like this you would want to enter your text and label manually. Perhaps this is not a correct assumption.
You can select any text on the page and make it a label for any input item by checking the Label option in the Inspector, though it’s common practice to use text alongside the input as the label. You can also have multiple labels for inputs.
Labels can’t currently be targeted for adding classes, ids or any other metadata. What is it you’re wanting to do, Dave? Is it just for styling?
Hi David,
I’ve used Actions to add classes to items like this in the past. There appears to be a few of these elements in Freeway that are tricky to style. One that I recall I had similar troubles with was the humble horizontal rule. Trying to style these without using an Action (to add a class, ID or style) or n-th child selectors (which can often break if the design changes) isn’t possible.
Regards,
Tim.
On 22 Feb 2014, at 10:04, DeltaDave wrote:
I may just be being dumb here but I would like to add (through the FW interface - no JS) a class to that Label.
One that I recall I had similar troubles with was the humble horizontal rule. Trying to style these without using an Action (to add a class, ID or style) or n-th child selectors (which can often break if the design changes) isn’t possible.
Now if there were an Action that I could use to add a Class to the Label tag that would be good enough for me. Or one that I could modify to do it?
There’s also an inelegant way of using FWP to get exactly the code you want
no actions needed.
But, you’re not going to like it.
Instead of applying the Label from the Inspector, just leave the text you
type next to the form item alone. Place your cursor in the center of that
text and arrow to the beginning. Insert a Markup Item from the menu and
style the beginning label tag like this:
<label for=“itemName” class=“myStyle”>
Exit, then arrow your cursor over to the end of that text and add another
Markup Item, in which you end the label element like so
</label>
Completely within FWP, and will produce this code exactly as desired.
Could you let me know a little more about what you’re trying to do? Are you trying to style each label differently? Are labels for some types of control to be styled differently to others? Do you have multiple forms with labels on the page? There may be something we can do with to Freeway if you have a common use case.
All I want to do is add a single Class to my Label Tags (not style them) - preferably on an item by item basis.
There are no actual forms on the page - the checkboxes that have the labels attached are used to trigger a ‘state’ ie checked/unchecked and are hidden with CSS
Ah, I see. I think your best bet is going to be to use the Markup Item method that Ernie suggested.
Joe
On 24 Feb 2014, at 16:39, DeltaDave email@hidden wrote:
All I want to do is add a single Class to my Label Tags (not style them) - preferably on an item by item basis.
There are no actual forms on the page - the checkboxes that have the labels attached are used to trigger a ‘state’ ie checked/unchecked and are hidden with CSS
