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Plugins - LabelHelper

LabelHelper

Rails has no helper for label tags, which are important accessibility/usability features of forms. You shouldn’t have to repeat yourself when writing labels for things: currently you need to do:

  <% form_for(:post, ...) do |f| %>
    < label for="post_title">Title</ label>
    <%= f.text_field(:title) %>
    < label for="post_body">Body</ label>
    <%= f.text_area(:body) %>
  <% end %>

(Ignore the spaces in the label tags - they don’t seem to appear if I leave the spaces out and using entities doesn’t work either.)

Whereas I’d rather not repeat myself over and over…

  <% form_for(:post, ...) do |f| %>
    <%= f.label(:title) %>
    <%= f.text_field(:title) %>
    <%= f.label(:body) %>
    <%= f.text_area(:body) %>
  <% end %>

This plugin lets you do this by adding a label method to ActionView::Helpers::FormHelper. You can also use the FormBuilder style as shown above. See the docs for that module for more details.

License

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Owner: James Coglan

Home: http://blog.jcoglan.com/labelhelper/

Repository: http://svn.jcoglan.com/labelhelper/trunk/label_helper

License: Rails' (MIT)

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