Facebook Cookbook - Jay Goldman [76]
value="7">Jul value="Give me Ice Cream!" /> orCancel NOTE It’s worth noting that this XHTML is actually invalid. Challenge your powers of perception and go find the two validation errors! Back? Got ’em? No? OK, I’ll tell you, but only this time. The various select options that are marked as selected should be marked as selected="selected" in XHTML, and the textarea is missing the rows and cols attributes. Each of the tags within the form has its own set of optional parameters (with the exception of fb:editor-divider, fb:editor-buttonset, and fb:editor-cancel, which are simplicity defined), discussed next. fb:editor Table 6-9. Parameters for fb:editor Name Type Default value Description action string N/A The URL to post the form to. This is the only required field. width int 425 Width of the fields column, in pixels. labelwidth int 75 Width of the labels column, in pixels. Note that the total width of the table will be width + labelwidth, and so it defaults to 500 pixels. fb:editor-custom Table 6-10. Parameter for fb:editor-custom Name Type Default value Description label string N/A Label to display in the label column. fb:editor-text Table 6-11. Parameters for fb:editor-text Name Type Default value Description label string N/A Label to display in the label column. name string N/A Name of the control, which will become the variable containing the value in the POST. value string N/A Default string to put into the field. maxlength
The fb:editor tags wrap the whole kit and caboodle, defining the start and end of the form. These replace the HTML form tag, so you don’t need to include one in addition to them. Its parameters are listed in Table 6-9.
The fb:editor-custom tag is used to insert any valid block of FBML into your form. In the example shown earlier, it’s used to both display some static text in the field column and include a select with ice cream flavors. Its parameter is listed in Table 6-10.
The fb:editor-text tag is equivalent to an HTML . Its parameters are listed in Table 6-11.