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Using the tableless renderer together with HTML_QuickForm_Controller
My post “Combining DHTMLRules, tableless layout and multiple page forms with HTML_QuickForm” led to several inqueries about why the layout with the shown code snippets still uses tables. The answer is: One needs to tell HTML_QuickForm_Controller (QFC) about the usage of another renderer.
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Combining DHTMLRules, tableless layout and multiple page forms with HTML_QuickForm
With the new 0.3.0 release of HTML_QuickForm_DHTMLRulesTableless it is now possible to build forms with HTML_QuickForm that have the following features:
- tableless layout (no <table> tags, very good accessibility)
- DHTMLRules (form elements errors are shown on top of each element)
- more than one page
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Howto: Adding explanations next to form fields with Tableless QuickForm renderer
Today, a user of HTML_QuickForm_Renderer_Tableless asked how he can add explanations next to form fields. An example of such an explaination or additional information is shown in the following screenshot:

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New Tableless renderer releases
New releases of both HTML_QuickForm_Renderer_Tableless (0.4.3) and HTML_QuickForm_DHTMLRulesTableless (0.2.3) are available. The renderer had only a little stylesheet change to achieve layout compatibility with Windows Internet Explorer 7. The DHTMLRules got support for multiple error messages (needed for groups), and there were some bug fixes.




