Pop-up Form Control

The oxy_popup form control supports the following properties:

• edit - Lets you edit the value of an attribute, the text content of an element, or Processing Instructions (PI). This property can have the following values:

  • @attribute_name - The name of the attribute whose value is being edited. If the attribute is in a namespace, the value of the property must be a QName and the CSS must have a namespace declaration for the prefix.
  • #text - Specifies that the presented/edited value is the simple text value of an element.

    Note

    You can set the value of the visibility property to -oxy-collapse-text to render the text only in the form control that the oxy_editor function specifies.

• rows - This property specifies the number of rows that the form control presents.

  Note

  If the value of the rows property is not specified, the default value of 12 is used.
• color - Specifies the foreground color of the form control. If the value of the color property is inherit, the form control has the same color as the element in which it is inserted.

  Note

  This property is used for rendering in the Author mode.
• visible - Specifies whether or not the form control is visible. The possible values of this property are true (default value) and false.
• tooltips - Associates tooltips to each value in the values property. The value of this property is a list of tooltip messages separated by commas. If you want the tooltip to display a comma, use the ${comma} variable.

  Example:

  link:before{
   content: oxy_popup(
           edit, '@href',
           values, "Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter",
           tooltips, "Iris${comma}Snowdrop, Gardenia${comma}Liliac,
               Chrysanthemum${comma}Salvia, Gerbera",
          selectionMode, single);  
  }

• values - Specifies the values that are committed when the check-boxes are selected. If these values are not specified in the CSS, they are collected from the associated XML Schema.

  Note

  Typically, when you use a comma in the values of a form control, the content that follows a comma is considered a new value. If you want to include a comma in the values, precede the comma with two backslashes. For example, oxy_combobox(values, '1\\, 2\\, 3, 4, edit, false) will display a combo box having the first value 1, 2, 3 and the second value 4.
• resultSeparator - If multiple check-boxes are used, the separator is used to compose the final result. If not specified, the space character is used.

  Note

  The value of the resultSeparator property cannot exceed one character.
• selectionMode - Specifies whether the form control allows the selection of a single value or multiple values. The predefined values of this property are single (default value) and multiple.
• labels - Specifies the label associated with each entry used for presentation. If this property is not specified, the values property is used instead.
• columns - Controls the width of the form control. The unit size is the width of the w character. This property is used for the visual representation of the form control.
• width - Specifies the width of the content area using relative (em, ex), absolute (in, cm, mm, pt, pc, px), and percentage (followed by the % character) length units. The width property takes precedence over the columns property (if the two are used together).
• rendererSort - Allows you to sort the values rendered on the form control label. The possible values of this property are ascending and descending.
• editorSort - Allows you to sort the values rendered on the form control. The possible values of this property are ascending and descending.
• rendererSeparator - Defines a separator used when multiple values are rendered. If not specified, the value of the resultSeparator property is used.
• fontInherit - This value specifies whether or not the form control inherits its font from its parent element. The values of this property can be true or false (default value). To make the form control inherit its font from its parent element, set the fontInherit property to true.
• hoverPseudoclassName - Allows you to change the way an element is rendered when you hover over a form control. The value is the name of a CSS pseudo-class. When you hover over the form control, the specified pseudo-class will be set on the element that contains the form control.

  p:before {
    content: oxy_popup(hoverPseudoclassName, 'showBorder')
  }
  p:showBorder {
    border: 1px solid red;
  }

popupWithMultipleSelection:before {
    content: " This editor edits an attribute value. 
                The possible values are specified
    inside the CSS: "
        oxy_popup(
            edit, "@attribute",
            values, "value1, value2, value3, value4, value5",
            labels, "Value no1, Value no2, Value no3, Value no4, Value no5",
            resultSeparator, "|",
            columns, 10,
            selectionMode, "multiple",
            color, "blue",
            fontInherit, true);
    font-size:30px;
}

Tip

To insert a sample of the oxy_popup form control in a CSS file (or LESS file), invoke the Content Completion Assistant by pressing Ctrl + Space (Command + Space on OS X) and select the oxy_popup code template.

To see more detailed examples and more information about how form controls work in Oxygen XML Author, see the sample files in the following directory: [OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR]/samples/form-controls.