Default Login method using email not HTML5 ready?

[Jim S]

I have an app that is using the standard web2py login with NO username.  Therefore people login with an email address.  When the INPUT element gets created for the email address on the login form, the type is set to "text".  Can we get that changed to "email" so keyboards on tablets/phone will present the @ key on the default keyboard for that field?

Or, am I missing something....

-Jim

[Niphlod]

there are no HTML5 widgets whatsoever in web2py right now.

[Jim Steil]

Is there a plan to add it?  Anything I can do to help?

-Jim

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[Paolo Valleri]

You should customize the widget, try something like:

db.auth_user.email.widget = lambda f,v: SQLFORM.widgets.string.widget(f, v, _placeholder='Email', _type='email')

Paolo

[Jim Steil]

Perfect!  Just what I was looking for, thanks for the help.

-Jim

[Cliff Kachinske]

Jim,

I've been playing with HTML5 myself a bit.

Not all browsers implement the input type completely, so be sure to test it in different browsers.

[Jim Steil]

Right,  but they all fail back to type="text" if they don't support the new types so they're would be no harm.

Jim

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