[racket] textarea-input formlet | How to specify rows & cols

This has been fixed.

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> The textarea formlet doesn't support setting those attributes right
> now. It should be straight-forward for you to do and me to commit the
> patch. Check out:
>
> http://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/web-server/formlets/input.rkt
>
> and compare textarea-input to text-or-password and you should be able
> to do it fairly easily.
>
> If you submit a bug report, then it will be on my TODO list to get to
> eventually.
>
> Jay
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Horace Dynamite
> <horace.dynamite at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm really struggling to understand how to use these formlets, so
>> please bear with me here :-)
>> I've been playing with the continue blog application, and instead of
>> input fields consisting of just a single row when you're adding a new
>> post, I'd like to have a TEXTAREA field instead for the post body.
>>
>> I've got the following formlets,
>>
>> (define make-post-formlet
>>  (formlet
>>   (#%#
>>    (div ((class "make-post-title"))
>>    "Title:" ,{input-string . => . title})
>>    (div ((class "make-post-body"))
>>     "Post:" ,{(textarea-input) . => . post})
>>    (input ((type "submit"))))
>>   (list title post)))
>>
>> (define display-post-confirm
>>  (match-lambda
>>    [(list title post)
>>     `(html
>>       (head (title "Post confirm page"))
>>       (body
>>        "Post title: " ,title
>>        "Post contents:" ,post))]))
>>
>> Notice in make-post-formlet, I'm using the predefined textarea-input
>> formlet. A lot of the other formlets have optional attributes you can
>> set specifying various features of that particular HTML entity, but I
>> don't understand how to specify the row and column size for the
>> textarea-input formlet.
>>
>> Any help on how to do this, or whether I should be considering a
>> different approach would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Horace.
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