Rails - Feb 2008 - Creating Tabular FormBuilder - Form/Table Tag Order

Hi,

I am using a FormBuilder to help with DRY-out my views where forms are
displayed in tables. However most examples of this seem to use the
same approach of using a view helper to combine the call to the
remote_form_for (etc...) method with the encapsulating table tags.

Doing it this way you end up with
<table><form></form></table> which
isn''t strictly valid and which Firefox enforces although IE
doesn''t.
Hence everything displays okay in IE but not Firefox.

Has anyone used a technique to get around this? Does it involve
overriding the remote_form_for (as used in this case) helper like I do
with the other form helper methods, somehow inserting <table> tags
inside the generated <form> tags?


Form helper method used in place of basic remote_form_for helper:


def tabular_remote_form_for(name, *args, &proc)

   # concat("<table class=''style3''>",
proc.binding)
   options = args.last.is_a?(Hash) ? args.pop : {}
   options = options.merge(:builder => TabularFormBuilder)
   args = (args << options)
   remote_form_for(name, *args, &proc)
   # concat("</table>", proc.binding)

end


...and in the view


<% tabular_remote_form_for :product, :url =>
product_path(@product), :html => { :method => :put } do |form| %>

    <table class="style3">
        <%= render :partial => ''form'', :locals => {
:form => form } %>
    </table>

<% end %>


Thanks, Andrew
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I should also say, the code shows how I am currently avoiding the
issue by manually adding <table> tags to each form. Ideally these
should be inserted by the builder.
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