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dynamicField: My First "Official" jQuery Plugin

Posted on January 12, 2010 at 1:48 PM in jQuery, ColdFusion

Anyone that knows me knows that I hate doing UI work. Why? Because I suck at it. Graphics, design, and layout are definitely not among my talents. Which is why I love jQuery so much. I can write a little bit of JavaScript - very little, in fact - add a plugin or two, and voila! I have a nice looking user interface for my application.

After using a few very handy form-related jQuery plugins and integrating them into my cfUniForm library, I decided it was time I go ahead and release a plugin of my own.

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On 4/26/10 at 10:28 AM, Bryon said:

It would be great if this could handle groups of form elements. For example, say I want a phone number text field, but I would also like a drop down which is associated with that text field... say "Type" where it could be "Home", "Work", "Mobile", etc.

Can this plugin support that capability to create groups of form field elements? That would be great if it could.

On 4/26/10 at 1:42 PM, Matt Quackenbush said:

@ Byron - I have not yet had an opportunity to dig into adding support for a "group" of form elements. I definitely plan to do so at some point, but I currently just have too many other things that are sucking up my time.

Part of my "issue" is that I need to figure out how to effectively handle it within the confines of the Uni-Form markup, which is what all of my forms are based upon. As of the moment, I've not really gotten my head around that. Or, perhaps more specifically, I've not yet gotten my head around how to handle it for a wide range of markup styles. Such a thing would not be nearly as useful if it forced one (anyone) into a single markup style. Anyways, I just don't have the time available to me to focus on it. :-(

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