This extension comes from the need of having fully customizable form controls that better support the user on one hand and are more aesthetically pleasing on the other.
- Two homemade jQuery plugins,
symphonySelectboxandsymphonyCheckbox, to respectively replaceselectandinput type"checkbox"elements with more advanced UI controls. - Consistent styles using recent standards (i.e. CSS3) for text inputs, textareas and buttons.
- Replacements for both multiple- and single-choice selectboxes, with two available sizes: "tiny" and "normal".
Future releases will provide:
- Custom event handlers
- Better performance
- Future fixes to future bugs ;)
Q: This (awesome) extension causes conflicts with $other_extension. What am I supposed to do?
A: You can populate the ignore array (available in both symphonySelectbox and symphonyCheckbox) with a complex CSS selector. Upon initialization, Fancy Forms will skip any element whose parents match the given expression.
Q: Can this (marvellous) extension be used on frontend too?
A: Sure, all it does is providing some jQuery plugins and stylesheets. Here’s the list of resources you need to include in your pages:
symphony.button.css
symphony.checkbox.css
symphony.checkbox.js
symphony.selectbox.css
symphony.selectbox.js
symphony.textbox.css
While buttons and textareas (as well as textinputs) are completely handled by CSS, selectboxes and checkboxes must be initialised as ordinary jQuery plugins. Example:
$('input[type="checkbox"]').symphonyCheckbox();
$('select').symphonySelectbox();
Information about installing and updating extensions can be found in the Symphony documentation at http://symphony-cms.com/learn/.