form_helper_css
Description
This plugin enhances the default tag helpers to automatically add CSS classes to form elements. It’s similar to the enhanced_form_tag_helper plugin, but takes a different approach by directly intercepting the tag and content_tag methods, and should therefore work in all situations where form elements are created, especially the FormHelper and more exotic ones like button_to.
The following elements are enhanced:
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<input>tags get their type as class name -
submit and reset buttons additionally get the class name button
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password fields additionally get the class name text
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<textarea>tags get the class name text -
<select>and<button>tags are not enhanced
If any helper options already specify a class, nothing will be changed. If you don’t want a class to be added, pass :class => nil.
There is a single option which can be set in the following manner:
ActionView::Helpers::TagHelper::FORM_HELPER_CSS_OPTIONS.merge!(:append => true)
If set to true, then even if a class is specified, the magical classes will be appended to the output.
License
The form_helper_css plugin is released under the MIT license.
Author
Philip Hallstrom <philip at pjkh dot com>
Original Author
Markus Koller <toupeira at gmx dot ch>
24 December 2006