Rails - Nov 2009 - Formatting of validation errors

Rails seems to expect views to contain one form field per line. I have
several views that put multiple input fields on a single line (e.g. for
phone number components). As an example:

    <p>
        <%= f.label ''Phone: '' %>
        (<%= f.text_field :phone_areacode, :maxlength=>3 %>)
        <%= f.text_field :phone_prefix, :maxlength=>3
            %>-<%= f.text_field :phone_suffix, :maxlength=>4 %>
        <%= f.label ''Ext.'' %>
        <%= f.text_field :phone_extension, :maxlength=>5 %>*
    </p>

When validation fails, rails displays fieldwitherror divs that format
these concatenated lines as separate lines, confusing the intent of the
layout. I edited the scaffold.css to try to fix this by changing
.fieldWithErrors from "display: table" to "display:
inline-table", but
while that fixed *most* fields it doesn''t seem to prevent line breaks
on
the ''('' character. 

I''ve gone about as far as my current knowledge allows in tracking down
what''s causing this formatting issue. How can I keep the entire set of
fields on one line when reporting errors?

-- 
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	-- Doctor Who, "Destiny of the Daleks"

Take a look at customizing the ''ActionView::Base.field_error_proc
proc'' in
your environment.rb file.  Here is a post will an example:
http://blog.cosmoknot.com/?p=77

Darian Shimy
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On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Todd A. Jacobs <
tjacobs-sndr-b4faac-S/bPM5e9wgfNLxjTenLetw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Rails seems to expect views to contain one form field per line. I have
> several views that put multiple input fields on a single line (e.g. for
> phone number components). As an example:
>
>    <p>
>        <%= f.label ''Phone: '' %>
>        (<%= f.text_field :phone_areacode, :maxlength=>3 %>)
>        <%= f.text_field :phone_prefix, :maxlength=>3
>            %>-<%= f.text_field :phone_suffix, :maxlength=>4 %>
>        <%= f.label ''Ext.'' %>
>        <%= f.text_field :phone_extension, :maxlength=>5 %>*
>    </p>
>
> When validation fails, rails displays fieldwitherror divs that format
> these concatenated lines as separate lines, confusing the intent of the
> layout. I edited the scaffold.css to try to fix this by changing
> .fieldWithErrors from "display: table" to "display:
inline-table", but
> while that fixed *most* fields it doesn''t seem to prevent line
breaks on
> the ''('' character.
>
> I''ve gone about as far as my current knowledge allows in tracking
down
> what''s causing this formatting issue. How can I keep the entire
set of
> fields on one line when reporting errors?
>
> --
> "Oh, look: rocks!"
>        -- Doctor Who, "Destiny of the Daleks"
>
>
> >
>
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Yeah, that''s a pretty big weakness of ActionView...simply adding a css
class to the tag would be great but it doesn''t look trivial.

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