Comments on: Another super-tiny Rails plugin: classy_inputs

By: Mikkel

Mikkel — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:36:28 +0000

Lovely. I too hate having to put class-attributes on every damn input.

Yet another place where IE 6 holds the world back from moving forward.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:27:33 +0000

Thanks! Great idea. It’ll make things just a bit cleaner.

By: James

James — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:05:03 +0000

Eric: quite possibly. But, it’s one of those things that’s so easy to write that I didn’t even bother spending the time to find out if anyone already did it.

By: Eric Anderson

Eric Anderson — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:58:51 +0000

Hasn’t this plugin been made at least 3 or 4 times before. If you check the various plugin archives you will seem them. Been using them for quite some time now.

By: Jim Neath

Jim Neath — Thu, 22 May 2008 08:30:32 +0000

Thank god someone has made this plugin. I HATE having to add classes to inputs just so I can style them for the luddite IE6 users.

Thanks for this plugin.

By: Ajaxian » classy_inputs: Rails plugin to add autoclass names

Ajaxian » classy_inputs: Rails plugin to add autoclass names — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:50:28 +0000

[...] lead James Coglan down the path of creating a teeny Rails plugin, classy_inputs: Good lord do I ever hate input tags. (YUI hates them too, but I’ll leave that story for another [...]

By: James

James — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:45:51 +0000

In general, yes you can do that. Most browsers and JS libraries will support that syntax. As far as I know, it does not work in IE6, which was pretty much the motivation for adding class names.

By: Maximilian Schulz

Maximilian Schulz — Sun, 18 May 2008 12:08:20 +0000

Well… I am not sure if I really got what you are trying to accomplish, but you can access the different input type via css selectors.

input[type=text], input[type=checkbox], … and so on. So there is no real need for attaching a class attribute to all of them.