I am working on a Zend form application where my form contains text boxes with watermarks.
we can achieve this in HTML by the following code:
<input type="text" placeholder="Search" name="q" />
My question is how to add the placeholder attribute in my input-box using Zend form ?
It's already been mentioned to use:
$element->setAttrib('placeholder', 'Search');
You can also use it like this when extending Zend_Form
$element = $this->createElement('text', 'q', array(
'placeholder' => 'Search',
'label' => 'Search'
));
Or inside the view using Zend_View_Helper_FormText
echo $this->formText('q',null, array('placeholder' => 'Search'));
I think you can call settAttrib() on your element like this when you define elements
$element->setAttrib ( 'placeholder', 'search' );
On Zend_Form_Element objects you can specify attributes:
$element->setAttrib('placeholder', 'Search');
Here's an update for ZF2.
You'll have to use this in your Zend\Form\Form :
$this->add(
[
'name' => 'q',
'type' => 'Text',
'options' => [
'label' => 'Search',
],
'attributes' => [
'placeholder' => 'Search',
],
]
);
setAttrib
doesn't exists, but setAttribute
does :
$element->setAttribute('placeholder', 'Search');
But in FormText
view-helper, you can't add options anymore, so you have to do :
$element = $form->get('q');
$saved_placeholder = $element->getAttribute('placeholder'); // works even if not defined
$element->setAttribute('placeholder', 'Search');
echo $this->formText($element);
$element->setAttribute('placeholder', $saved_placeholder);
I know, this is an ugly hack !