Changing Form Layout

[jshew]

First Off, great software. Very well done. The templating system can be a little frustrating, though. Here's my dilemma: I am trying to convert the layout to a standards compliant (i.e. no tables) layout of my own and I am having trouble changing the layout of the request forms. It seems you have placed the labels for each field in a table cell in one column and the corresponding fields in another table column next to the first. Instead of having all these extra tables, rows, cells, and spans, I would like the forms to look more like this:

<div id ="qsearch">
<label>Field1
<input name="testField" type="text" id="testField"  />
</label>
<label>Field2
<input name="testField" type="text" id="testField"  />
</label>
</div>

This way the layout can be completely controlled externally via CSS, and the templates do not have to adjusted all over the place. I've already made a lot of adjustments and I realize this cannot be acheived without altering the functions/classes but I would really appreciate if I could get some assistance in this area, primarily with the functions in “/system/modules/classifieds/classes/known.php” and “/system/modules/classifieds/classes/formlib.php”.

[iAuto/iRealty Sales]

Hi,

A very nice topic. I have already requested our developers to take a look at it. They promised to review it within the next couple of days to give you ideas on what can be done. I wonder whether any other member of the forum has ideas about helping you out. Maybe we can even fire up a nice discussion here.

[jshew]

Thanks for looking into it, I really apprecitate it. This is the only thing that's holding up the design and I know I'm probably being a pain, but I just despise using tables for anything but tabular content. I can have my developers make the adjustments if I have to but obviously I'd like to save the cash if your developers are already working on it anyway.

[Smart Girl]

Dear Jshew,

We will see how we can help you in your issue. I forwarded your request to our developers. As soon as I have a feedback from them I'll let you know.

[kosyakov]

Hello,

even though much of the HTML is generated in files you mention (we are trying to get rid of this), the other part of HTML comes from templates:

Please look into the following files:

form_request.tpl
form_request_box.tpl
form_request_group.tpl
form_request_item.tpl