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trejder
trejder

Reputation: 17505

Add attribute without value to htmlOptions

How to force Yii 1.x to render HTML5's attribute without value, like autofocus or readonly in htmlOptions array passed to anything? So, as a result I'd get for example:

<input autofocus>

I tried this idea of setting array('autofocus'=>TRUE); or array('autofocus'=>'autofocus');, but this does not work. It renders either <field autofocus="1"> or <field autofocus="autofocus"> and both are not, what HTML5 expects, so they don't work.

I also tried (I don't know, why did I expect this to work) array('autofocus'=>NULL);, but such attributes are now removed by Yii 1.x and are not rendered at all.

I also tried a stupid workaround of setting this value using jQuery. But, that scares me even, if I think about it. There's got to be a better solution to this.

This seemed obvious, but I failed on finding proper answer, here on in other sources.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 472

Answers (3)

okainov
okainov

Reputation: 4654

I've just found out that it's possible in some way. All modern browsers treat following lines equally:

<input autofocus>
<input autofocus="autofocus">

So, basically, you cannot add key-only attribute to Yii, but you can add either 'autofocus' => 'autofocus' or 'autofocus' => trueand it will behave in the same way. And it works for CHtml::activeTextField as well as for usual input.

Upvotes: 1

trejder
trejder

Reputation: 17505

According to Maurizio Domba Cerin, a Yii Framework 1.x forum admin, you should use property CHtml::renderSpecialAttributesValue (available since Yii 1.1.13) like this (set it to FALSE):

CHtml::$renderSpecialAttributesValue = FALSE;

This will tell CHtml class to render all fields' attributes without value in the way, it was introduced in HTML5 (i.e. <input autofocus>) instead of "old" XHTML way (<input autofocus="autofocus").

Upvotes: 1

hamed
hamed

Reputation: 8033

I think you can't do this with yii. You need to implement this by yourself. Yii provides CActiveForm#textField for normal use and you need to use text field in advanced mode. I think there is no way for doing this, except writing plain html <input> tag. You can write html <input> and assign id and name similar to yii.

Upvotes: 1

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