Add markup to single field

[guy]

Is there a method to add markup to a single input field when building a form?

At present I'd customise the forms markup:

$form = $modules->get("InputfieldForm");

$form->setMarkup([
    'item_content' => "{out}<span class='custom-span'></span>",
    ....
]);

Which works but adds the custom span to every inputFieldWrapper. Adjusting setMarkup on an individual field, i.e.

$field = $modules->get("InputfieldText");

$field->setMarkup([
    'item_content' => "{out}<span class='different-span'></span>"
]);

Calls the same method, setting $markup within inputFieldWrapper.php and adjusting the output of every inputFieldWrapper

Therefore I was hoping for a way of appending to the inputfield or wrapper without it being global

[LostKobrakai]

That's not possible right now, you could only use InputfieldMarkup before and after your inputfield to add wrapping markup around the whole inputfield.

[guy]

no worries, thanks for letting me know

[bernhard]

what does inputfieldmarkup do and where can i find more info on that? google didn't give me good results...

[LostKobrakai]

It's just another Inputfield to be used with processwire's form api. Instead of rendering a "real" inputfield you can just set a string (markup) to it, that will then be plainly rendered, without looking at it. What I just noticed: I was wrong above, just using it for opening and closing markup won't work as InputfieldMarkup is also wrapped in the "wrappingMarkup" that every other Inputifield does get, too.

Edit: The holy bible for working with the form api: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/2089-create-simple-forms-using-api/

[bernhard]

sorry for hijacking this thread, but this is for frontend forms, right? is it also possible to have some custom markup in admin forms, eg links in descriptions or such?

[LostKobrakai]

Nope. This is what 90% of the backend is based on. So yeah, you can edit pretty much everything in the backend.

[bernhard]

but it refers to coding in the admin? i haven't done any form coding yet so that's why i have no idea my question was more about if there was a kind of installable inputfield (click, click solution) with a textarea that you can then place to a template (click, click) and then it renders some markup for you.

edit: InputfieldMarkup is not that kind of a field, is it?

[tpr]

i haven't done any form coding yet

Consider yourself very happy

[LostKobrakai]

InputfieldMarkup is only the inputfield, but there's no corresponding fieldtype, that you could create a field from. It's more a tool for module creation and custom backends.

[bernhard]

aaah, thank you - i was mixing up the wordings "inputfield" and "fieldtype"