[wp-hackers] Autop and Pages

[Alex King]

*sigh* - I updated to the latest nightly and I can now set a custom 
field on a page. Nevermind...

--Alex

http://www.alexking.org/


On Jan 24, 2005, at 12:30 PM, Alex King wrote:

> I've run into an ugly situation with Pages and AutoP in 1.5 (I've got 
> a nightly from a week or two back). I'm setting up a contact form in a 
> Page, and the AutoP is mangling the code pretty badly.
>
> My first reaction was to set a custom field to turn off formatting for 
> the Page, but custom fields don't seem to be available for Pages.
>
> Here is what I put in initially:
>
> <form action="/email.php" method="post" onsubmit="return 
> validateEmail();">
> 	<fieldset class="email_form">
> 		<p>
> 			<label for="from_name">Your Name:</label>
> 			<input type="text" name="from_name" id="from_name" value="" />
> 		</p>
> 		<p>
> 			<label for="from_address">Your E-mail Address:</label>
> 			<input type="text" name="from_address" id="from_address" value="" />
> 		</p>
>
> 		<p>
> 			<label for="subject">Regarding:</label>
> 			<select name="subject" id="subject">
> 				<option selected="selected">--</option>
> 				<option>Other...</option>
> 			</select>
> 		</p>
> 		<p>
>
> 			<label for="message_body">Message:</label>
> 			<textarea name="message_body" id="message_body" rows="10" 
> cols="45"></textarea>
> 		</p>
> 		<p>
> 			<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send E-mail" class="send" 
> />
> 		</p>
> 	</fieldset>
> </form>
>
> And it became a colossal mess - *really* bad. So I stripped out as 
> much formatting as I could, bringing it down to this:
>
> <form action="/email.php" method="post" onsubmit="return 
> validateEmail();">
> <fieldset><legend>Contact Form</legend><input type="hidden" 
> name="config" value="contact" />
>
> <label for="from_name">Your Name:</label><input type="text" 
> name="from_name" id="from_name" value="" />
>
> <label for="from_address">Your E-mail Address:</label><input 
> type="text" name="from_address" id="from_address" value="" />
>
> <label for="subject">Regarding:</label><select name="subject" 
> id="subject"><option 
> selected="selected">--</option>option>Other...</option></select>
>
> <label for="message_body">Message:</label><textarea 
> name="message_body" id="message_body" rows="10" cols="45"></textarea>
>
> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send E-mail" class="send" />
>
> </fieldset>
> </form>
>
> But I'm still having a problem with a <br /> tag being entered between 
> the <label /> and the <select /> for the subject field.
>
> 	<p>			<label for="subject">Regarding:</label><br />
> <select name="subject" id="subject"><option 
> selected="selected">&#8211;</option><option>General 
> Comment</option><option>Web Development 
> Consulting</option><option>Blog Development 
> Consulting</option><option>User Interface 
> Consulting</option><option>Other&#8230;</option></select>
>
> And the <label /> and the >textarea /> for the message field:
>
> 	<p>			<label for="message_body">Message:</label><br />
> 			<textarea name="message_body" id="message_body" rows="10" 
> cols="45"></textarea></p>
>
> And an extra <p> and <br /> tag being added at the end:
>
> 	<p>	</fieldset><br />
> </form>
>
> Has anyone else run into problems like this? Solutions?
>
> Why aren't custom fields available for Pages?
>
> --Alex
>
> http://www.alexking.org/
>
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