NAME

HTML::FormFu::Element::_Group - grouped form field base-class

DESCRIPTION

Base class for HTML::FormFu::Element::Radiogroup and HTML::FormFu::Element::Select fields.

METHODS

options

Arguments: none

Arguments: \@options

---
elements:
  - type: Select
    name: foo
    options:
      - [ 01, January ]
      - [ 02, February ]
      - value: 03
        label: March
        attributes:
          style: highlighted
      - [ 04, April ]

If passed no arguments, it returns an arrayref of the currently set options.

Use to set the list of items in the select menu / radiogroup.

It's arguments must be an array-ref of items. Each item may be an array ref of the form [ $value, $label ] or a hash-ref of the form { value => $value, label => $label }. Each hash-ref may also have the keys attributes and label_attributes.

Passing an item containing a group key will, for Select fields, create an optgroup. And for RadioGroup fields, create a sub-group of radiobuttons with a new span block, with the classname subgroup.

An example of Select optgroups:

---
elements:
  - type: Select
    name: foo
    options:
      - label: "group 1"
        group:
          - [1a, 'item 1a']
          - [1b, 'item 1b']
      - label: "group 2"
        group:
          - [2a, 'item 2a']
          - [2b, 'item 2b']

When using the hash-ref construct, the label_xml and label_loc variants of label are supported, as are the value_xml and value_loc variants of value, the attributes_xml variant of attributes and the label_attributes_xml variant of label_attributes.

container_attributes or container_attributes_xml is used by HTML::FormFu::Element::Checkboxgroup and HTML::FormFu::Element::Radiogroup for the c<span> surrounding each item's input and label. It is ignored by HTML::FormFu::Element::Select elements.

values

Arguments: \@values

---
elements:
  - type: Radiogroup
    name: foo
    values:
      - jan
      - feb
      - mar
      - apr

A more concise alternative to "options". Use to set the list of values in the select menu / radiogroup.

It's arguments must be an array-ref of values. The labels used are the result of ucfirst($value).

value_range

Arguments: \@values

---
elements:
  - type: Select
    name: foo
    value_range:
      - ""
      - 1
      - 12 

Similar to "values", but the last 2 values are expanded to a range. Any preceeding values are used literally, allowing the common empty first item in select menus.

empty_first

If true, then a blank option will be inserted at the start of the option list (regardless of whether "options", "values" or "value_range" was used to populate the options). See also "empty_first_label".

empty_first_label

empty_first_label_xml

empty_first_label_loc

If "empty_first" is true, and empty_first_label is set, this value will be used as the label for the first option - so only the first option's value will be empty.

SEE ALSO

Is a sub-class of, and inherits methods from HTML::FormFu::Element::_Field, HTML::FormFu::Element

HTML::FormFu

AUTHOR

Carl Franks, cfranks@cpan.org

LICENSE

This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.