| Subject: | Fieldset Legend Strangeness |
Hi there:
I'm forwarding this bug on behalf of a Debian user. The original text
(which follows) can be found here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=421660
According to the manual:
To use fieldsets, specify an arrayref of "<fieldset>" names:
fieldsets => [qw(account preferences contacts)]
You can get a different "<legend>" tag if you specify a nested
arrayref:
fieldsets => [
[ account => ’Account Information’ ],
[ preferences => ’Website Preferences’ ],
[ contacts => ’Email and Phone Numbers’ ],
]
As I read this, the first example should create fieldsets with legends
"account", "preferences", "contacts", while the second should create
fieldsets with the longer legend texts.
However, what actually happened when I tried it, is that if I defined
fieldsets using the first syntax, the legends were not displayed at all.
The only way to get the legend tags added was to use the second syntax.
You can also automatically create a new "fieldset" on the fly by
specifying a new one:
$form->field(name => ’remember_me’, fieldset => ’advanced’);
This also causes the legend to be displayed, unless I do this:
# This avoids it displaying a redundant label for the
# OpenID fieldset.
$form->fieldsets("OpenID");
$form->field(name => ’Log in with OpenID’, fieldset =>
’OpenID’);
It's actually good that there's a way to create a fieldset w/o a legend;
I use this in ikiwiki. But the way to do it smells of a bug. :-/