[pmwiki-devel] Select & Option Dropdown-list Markup

[The Editor]

On 12/11/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 01:11:54PM -0500, The Editor wrote:
> > On 12/11/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > >On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:14:29PM +0000, Hans wrote:
> > >> I am seeking some advise how to optimise some markup, and choose
> > >> good markup names.
> > >> [...]
> > >> I am aware that we may get one day an (:input select... ) markup, and
> > >> I played with a version for that first,
> > >
> > >Oops.  Funny timing, as this morning I started writing the final
> > >version of (:input select ...:).  I expect to release it in a couple
> > >of hours, along with some other small improvements to (:input ...:).
> >
> > Hope you also will remember to do the textarea markups, and make it
> > possible to set default values for radio and checkboxes, etc.  I'm
> > really looking forward to a rework of the forms script...
>
> I'm still not absolutely certain what to do with textarea markups,
> so it might not appear in today's release.  However, setting of
> default values for radio, checkbox, and select inputs will work.
>
> Pm

Have you looked at the textarea markup in zap and how it works with
the keep function--perhaps for ideas?  I don't know if it would be
helpful to you.  I suppose you could perhaps use [@ @] or [= =] around
the default value instead of (:keep:) as another possibility, as keep
does a couple unorthodox things (ie: magic boxes!).