[wp-hackers] Re: Form Layouts With Tables
Stephen Rider
wp-hackers at striderweb.com
Fri Mar 21 18:00:48 GMT 2008
I'm surprised some backward-compatible CSS wasn't included in 2.5 so
that pre-existing plugins' Settings pages would look _relatively_ the
same as they used to.
> Don't forget the cautionary fable of the anti-table warrior who
> recoded the WordPress calendar code to use div-span soup instead of
> a table.
Well, yeah, but there are standard HTML elements for forms. There
aren't for calendars.
I'm with the "huh?" crowd. This could have been done with CSS and a
standard form.
Still, except for goofing up the appearance of older plugins, this is
NO BIG ISSUE. :)
Stephen
On Mar 21, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Jess Planck wrote:
> Yet It might be a nice thing to have some default admin classes and
> css implemented for fieldset, legend, and label. Just to cover those
> bases. Plugin authors may always add their own css to the mix, but
> giving some guidance here could be helpful and cut some plugin css
> cruft.
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