codrops / naturallanguageform

An experimental form that uses natural language instead of the usual form layout. Values are entered using custom input elements.

NaturalLanguageForm

An experimental form that uses natural language instead of the usual form layout. Values are entered using custom input elements.

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[enhancement] Add missing bower.json.

Hey, maintainer(s) of codrops/NaturalLanguageForm!

We at VersionEye are working hard to keep up the quality of the bower's registry.

We just finished our initial analysis of the quality of the Bower.io registry:

7530 - registered packages, 224 of them doesnt exists anymore;

We analysed 7306 existing packages and 1070 of them don't have bower.json on the master branch ( that's where a Bower client pulls a data ).

Sadly, your library codrops/NaturalLanguageForm is one of them.

Can you spare 15 minutes to help us to make Bower better?

Just add a new file bower.json and change attributes.

{
  "name": "codrops/NaturalLanguageForm",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "main": "path/to/main.css",
  "description": "please add it",
  "license": "Eclipse",
  "ignore": [
    ".jshintrc",
    "**/*.txt"
  ],
  "dependencies": {
    "<dependency_name>": "<semantic_version>",
    "<dependency_name>": "<Local_folder>",
    "<dependency_name>": "<package>"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "<test-framework-name>": "<version>"
  }
}

Read more about bower.json on the official spefication and nodejs semver library has great examples of proper versioning.

NB! Please validate your bower.json with jsonlint before commiting your updates.

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Changes placeholder colors for inputs on other forms

Great stuff! Just a tiny issue where the css in component.css also affects other forms that are not using the NL Form. Easily fixed by going in and editing the css.

Password inputs

How about to convert password inputs values to "******"? What should I do for this enhancement?

Support default values (or programatic population of values) on input fields

Right now this script just takes the input placeholder by default, even if the input has value="" set to something.

I changed:
this.toggle.innerHTML = this.elOriginal.getAttribute( 'placeholder' );

to:
this.toggle.innerHTML = this.elOriginal.value.trim() !== '' ? this.elOriginal.value : this.elOriginal.getAttribute( 'placeholder' );

Users find it confusing

I have done some random user testing and 4/10 of them did not hit the arrow icon after typing into an input and just presumed that it was filled in and done.

They don't want to have to click more buttons that necessary.

Is it possible for the input to set when the user clicks away onto another element rather than having to click the arrow?

Hope this makes sense!

inputs encapsulated in divs

Hi, got a problem :)

Tried to implement it, but my design forces me to use divs to encapsulate some of the inputs / options. The problem is that the overlay will not work if another parent exists - mainly because it will not show eg, the css selector ~ works for selectors within same parents, and selecting a parent is only available in CSS4.

So in _open and _close

I have added after
this.fld.className += ' nl-field-open';
this.fld.parentNode.className += ' nl-overlay-open'; so that I can make the css work for the overlay.

Also on _close

this.fld.className = this.fld.className.replace(/\b nl-field-open\b/,''); this.fld.parentNode.className = this.fld.className.replace(/\b nl-overlay-open\b/,'');

Now it works, but I still have a problem, that when I click the overlay to close it, my other classes on the encapsulated divs are deleted.
Tried to change ALL the className with replace before and += after, still not working.

Any ideas? :)

InvalidStateError on input type=File

On upload file i got below error

nlform.js:167
Uncaught InvalidStateError: Failed to set the 'value' property on 'HTMLInputElement': This input element accepts a filename, which may only be programmatically set to the empty string.