Is there a way to disable default formtastic layout?

Question

For one specific case I would like to render the form as a part of (for in-place editing). Is there a way in formtastic to disable the layout generated by .inputs / .buttons? Instead a

<fieldset> <ol> <li> 

i would like simply to wrap the fields in the

<td>

Is there a build-in way or any solution to this problem?

Answer 1

There's no built in way (yet) in Formtastic to change the mark-up. Either use CSS to tweak the ample mark-up hooks in place, or ditch Formtastic for this form and code your own way (like we used to).

Answer 2

In rails you can overrite the functions that define the tags that are used to render elements:

config/initializers/formtastic_foundation.rb:

# change required fields advice tag (abbr -> span)
Formtastic::FormBuilder.required_string =
proc { Formtastic::Util.html_safe(%{<span title="#{Formtastic::I18n.t(:required)}">*</span>}) }

module Formtastic
  module Helpers
    # change field wrapper (ol -> div)
    module FieldsetWrapper
      protected
      def field_set_and_list_wrapping(*args, &block) #:nodoc:
        contents = args.last.is_a?(::Hash) ? '' : args.pop.flatten
        html_options = args.extract_options!

        if block_given?
          contents = if template.respond_to?(:is_haml?) && template.is_haml?
          template.capture_haml(&block)
          else
            template.capture(&block)
          end
        end

        contents = contents.join if contents.respond_to?(:join)

        legend = field_set_legend(html_options)
          fieldset = template.content_tag(:fieldset,
          Formtastic::Util.html_safe(legend) << template.content_tag(:div, Formtastic::Util.html_safe(contents)),
          html_options.except(:builder, :parent, :name)
        )

        fieldset
      end
    end
  end

  module Inputs
    module Base
      # change input wrapper tag (li.default_clases -> div.large-12.columns inside div.row)
      module Wrapping
        def input_wrapping(&block)
          def super_wrapper_html_options
            {:class => 'row'}
          end

          new_class = [wrapper_html_options[:class], "large-12 columns"].compact.join(" ")

          template.content_tag(:div,
            template.content_tag(:div,
              [template.capture(&block), error_html, hint_html].join("\n").html_safe,
              wrapper_html_options.merge(:class => new_class)),
            super_wrapper_html_options)
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

I use this code to integrate Formtastic 3 with Foundation 5.4.5

Answer 3

It's not yet supported, however you can use forked formtastic version: https://github.com/linoj/formtastic

More details at: http://www.vaporbase.com/postings/Replaceable_render_engines_for_Formtastic

Read on the formtastic forum that it might be even merge to origin someday.

Answer 4

I wrapped my call to the formtastic bit (in my haml file) in a string and then subbed out the

= "#{f.input ...}".gsub('<li class=', '<fart class=').html_safe #remove the li to align this input with the other text in the table. 

It's a might bit easier than re-writing the form without formtastic, and it worked perfectly.

Admittedly it's a not an ideal solution. For a one off though... I can live with it.