Formgroup

Summary

The formgroup tag is used to lay out a set of check boxes or radio buttons in a dynamic form template. All the check boxes or radio buttons in a group share the same name. A button group must be created as an element in the Tcl script associated with the template.

Usage

  <formtemplate id="choose_services">
    <table>
      <formgroup id=services>
         <tr><td>\@formgroup.widget\@</td><td>\@formgroup.label\@</td></tr>
      </formgroup>
    </table><br>
  <input type="submit" value="Submit">
  </formtemplate>

Notes

• The formgroup tag contains a template for formatting each check box or radio button in the group. The tag makes a special multirow data source named formgroup available in the body of the tag. The formgroup data source includes two columns. The first is widget, containing an HTML input tag for one of the buttons in the group. The second is label, containing a corresponding label for the button.

• The formgroup tag may emulate either the multiple or grid tags in repeating the template section within the tag. By default it emulates the multiple tag. If the cols attribute is specified, the formgroup tag will emulate the grid tag.

• HTML attributes may be specified as attributes to the formgroup tag. The system will include all such attributes in the input tags of each radio button or check box in the group. Although possible, newer browser security features such as CSP discourage the use of inline Javascript event handlers.

  <formgroup id="services" style="background-color:white;">

• See the formtemplate and formwidget tags for more information on writing the body of a dynamic form template.