[Zope3-dev] Re: Aesthetics of generated forms

[Tonico Strasser]

Peter Mayne wrote:
> Tonico Strasser wrote:
> 
>> [Lots of interesting links related to Web forms]
> 
> 
> I don't have any problems with tables, but I'd like to avoid wrapping 
> where possible. Putting text inside <td> cells which are significantly 
> smaller than the page width makes it more likely that longer text will 
> wrap. Furthermore, I'd guess that much of the quoted stuff works fine if 
> you can hand tune the HTML ("that field name is a bit long, I'll make 
> the cell a bit wider"), but not for automatically generated forms.
> 
> The article at http://www.clagnut.com/blog/241/ seems happy with 
> definition lists, and the HTML 4 spec encourages uses other than actual 
> definition lists. Given that the context is an automatically generated 
> form, and the target audience is non-end-user application/data managers, 
> I don't see anything particularly wrong with using <dl>.

I have no problems with <dl>s as long as it's easy to customize the 
generated markup :)

Tonico