I am trying to load notifications in my app into a dropdown from my navbar (which is a bootstrap navbar). The partials that I am working with for each notification are similar to this one:
<%= link_to student_path(notification.notifiable), class: "dropdown-item notification-row #{"unread" if !notification.read_at?}" do %>
<%= image_tag notification.faculty.photo, class: "avatar", alt: "faculty-pic" %>
<div class="notification-message">
<%= notification.faculty.teacher_name %>
<%= notification.action %>
<%= notification.notifiable.first_name %>
<%= notification.notifiable.last_name %>
to you
</div>
<div class="notification-time"><%= time_ago_in_words(notification.created_at) %></div>
<% end %>
I am specifically attempting to keep the "notification-message" class at a width of 200 px as displayed in my css:
.notification-message {
width: 200px;
}
but my partials do not render accordingly...
I want the "notification-message" content to wrap within that width so that my notifications are consistent. I have tried adding both the word-wrap, and overflow-wrap attributes to my css, but they do not help (my partial is rendered just the same). Is this happening because of some sort of bootstrap style? Any other ideas??
I'm playing around with some of the input boxes for my rails project.
I'm a bit taken with the first example given here. I like the little '#' notch and could use that for a formatting prompt to our users.
Their code looks like this:
<div class="input-group">
<span class="input-group-addon">#</span>
<input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Username">
</div>
If i put that into my rails view it works perfectly and looks great.
But my form setup is running with a form_for function, and I'm having difficutly getting the two to play nicely.
My rails html.erb code looks like this below:
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6 col-md-offset-4">
<%= form_for #request do |f| %>
<%= render 'shared/error_messages' %>
<%= f.label :user_id%>
<%= f.text_field :user_id%>
<%= f.submit "Begin my request", class: "btn btn-primary" %>
<% end %>
</div>
</div>
I've tried wrapping the two pieces of code together in various ways but to no effect!
General constants is that my rails code always comes out with hard rectangular edges (compared to the bootstrap smooth curves), I cannot get the input-group-addon to sit comfortably on the end of the input field, it variously rides above and below or sits awkwardly over the larger form block etc... so fail on my part. Anyone got any insight?
In terms of gems pertinent to bootstrap I'm using:
gem 'bootstrap-sass', '3.2.0.0'
gem 'sass-rails', '5.0.0.beta1'
The problem you are running into is form_for is using the rails FormBuilder to generate your form and the method text_field is translating to a specific piece of html. You can have it create a different piece of html by creating your own form builder. If you opt to use another gem like simple_form it gets even easier as you can just create additional types of fields. You can look over the documentation for that gem for more information.
class CustomFormBuilder < ActionView::Helpers::FormBuilder
def text_field_with_addon(name, addon, *args)
#template.content_tag(:div,
#template.content_tag(:span, addon, class: 'input-group-addon') +
#template.text_field(name, *args),
class: 'input-group')
end
end
Then use it like:
<%= form_for #request, builder: CustomFormBuilder do |f| %>
<%= render 'shared/error_messages' %>
<%= f.label :user_id%>
<%= f.text_field_with_addon :user_id, '#' %>
<%= f.submit "Begin my request", class: "btn btn-primary" %>
<% end %>
Ok. I can't figure this out. The problem is that #extend is not working in css. I have css:
#import "bootstrap";
.field_with_errors {
#extend .control-group;
#extend .error;
}
It doesn't highlight the fields that have div class .field_with_errors. I can't figure out why, it worked on other apps I made. If I write in CSS something like color: #f00; - this works. It just doesn't #extend for some reason. Any ideas?
Form:
<h1>Report</h1>
<div class="row">
<div class="span6 offset3">
<%= form_for(#problem) do |f| %>
<%= render 'shared/error_messages' %>
<%= f.label :name, raw("Your name:") %>
<%= f.text_field :name %>
<%= f.label :email, raw("E-mail address (for confirmation):") %>
<%= f.text_field :email %>
<%= f.label :description, raw("Enter a description of the problem:") %>
<%= f.text_area :description %>
<%= f.submit "Submit", class: "btn btn-large btn-primary" %>
<% end %>
</div>
</div>
Probably a dumb question, I must've missed something. I just don't know what it is and would really like this to work like it did before. Any help appreciated!
Edit:
After looking at bootstrap-sass files, I realized that I am able to #extend classes that are in the files there (#extend .form-control works for instance). So it must be that .error and .control-group is not there!! Where it went I still can't figure out, unless they just changed it like a week ago. :/
As the comment of 'soup' points out, the problem is caused by installing Bootstrap 3 and then calling Bootstrap 2 class names. The class names have changed (have a look here). The correct code is:
.field_with_errors {
#extend .has-error;
}
And accordingly the error message has to be wrapped in (also look here):
div class="alert alert-danger"
So in your app\views\shared\_error_messages.html.erb-partial (you're propably reusing code from Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial) change div class="alert alert-error" to div class="alert alert-danger". Because your code is so far off, I give you a version adapted for Bootstrap 3:
<h1>Report</h1>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6 col-md-offset-3">
<%= form_for(#problem) do |f| %>
<%= render 'shared/error_messages' %>
<div class="form-group">
<%= f.label :name, raw("Your name:") %>
<%= f.text_field :name, class: 'form-control' %>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<%= f.label :email, raw("E-mail address (for confirmation):") %>
<%= f.text_field :email, class: 'form-control' %>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<%= f.label :description, raw("Enter a description of the problem:") %>
<%= f.text_area :description, class: 'form-control' %>
</div>
<%= f.submit "Submit", class: "btn btn-lg btn-primary" %>
<% end %>
</div>
</div>
In case anyone lands on this (like I did) because it isn't working with LESS, here's what I had to do:
.field_with_errors .form-control {
&:extend(.has-error .form-control);
}
.field_with_errors .form-control:focus {
&:extend(.has-error .form-control:focus);
}
When I tried it with:
.field_with_errors {
&:extend(.has-error);
}
which is the equivalent of the recommended way I found to use the bootstrap 3 style for errors, LESS wasn't doing anything. It may have something to do with the fact that the selectors in bootstrap 3 that mention has-error always have it combined with something else, e.g.:
.has-error .form-control {
Anyway - the above solution worked for me so hopefully it helps someone else.
I figured it out. This has to do with Twitter-Bootstrap, which has a class .alert in it. That is the class responsible for showing errors with correct styling.
Bootstrap installs who knows where and is easiest to access through Developer Tools in browser (that sucks). I couldn't find where the source of the gem is located (it pointed me to folder that is not a folder). So I copied twitter css files from github directly into my app -> vendor/assets/stylesheets . Now I can deal with the problem.
I changed the style of .alert class inside one of bootstrap files (_alerts.scss) and added extra classes in my custom.css.scss file to make border around inputs red on errors.
Somehow this whole thing worked better in previous apps I made, I think this has to do with changes they made to bootstrap and possibly the fact that I messed with bootstrap's original design (like a full-width header).
The biggest thing that led me to solution was that the class is .alert and not .error like I thought. Also big thanks to browser developer tools, I couldn't find my files without you.
Edit:
Here's the download instructions on Bootstrap to get the files:
http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/#download
Upgrading your code as per 3.x should work
.field_with_errors {
#extend .has-error;
}
This error causes because in application.scss there is the folowing line
*= require_tree .
and it is placed before the #import "bootstrap".
So, _custom.scss has been included before Bootstrap.
The easiest way to fix it -- what worked for me -- is to add !optional to both classes:
.field_with_errors {
#extend .control-group !optional;
#extend .error !optional;
}
OK, after chasing down this issue for a couple days, I figured out what the problem is.
You need to include bootstrap at the top your custom.css.scss file.
#import 'bootstrap';
My guess would be that this includes all the classes in the custom file so that you can reference them later. I assume if you use some bootstrap gem it will make them globally available, but if you do it vanilla like I did then you need to use the code above.
I am writing a form with three text input fields. I have used text_field_tag to create them
<%= text_field_tag(:input_first) %>
<%= text_field_tag(:input_second) %>
<%= text_field_tag(:input_first) %>
Am using bootstrap css. I want to make the second input larger than the first and the third input. How can I achieve that?
I have tried the below, and even more and the input field size is not changing.
first
<%= text_field_tag(:input_second, :input_html => { :class => "input-large"}) %>
second
<%= text_field_tag(:input_second, nil, :class => "input-large") %>
third
<%= text_field_tag(:input_second, nil, :size=> 30) %>
fourth
<span class="input-large">
<%= text_field_tag(:input_second) %>
</span>
What wrong am I doing? Am a beginner in rails/css/html
ps: should I use text_field_tag or text_field ?
Bootstrap utilizes specific classes to control the width of input elements:
In a Rails template, you'd invoke a text_field_tag in the following manner:
<%= text_field_tag('input_second', nil, class: 'input-large') %>
For my form below, how would I prevent the form from skipping to the next line? I have taken a look at bootstrap class "form-inline" and did not seem to work as it disabled my form.
Hello World!
<%= form_for(current_user.likes.build(blog_id: blog.id)) do |f| %>
<div><%= f.hidden_field :blog_id %></div>
<%= f.submit "Submit" %>
<% end %>
This results in:
Hello World!
<Submit Button>
Question: How do I make it come in one row so it is as follows:
Hello World!<Submit Button>
Either make both your text and form inline or, as commented by Sparda, use float: left orfloat: right.
This is a trivial css thing :)