[#17196] - [com_fields] Type "Radio" not wrapping around and scrolling off page
- Expected Behaviour
- 26 Jul 2017
- Low
- Build: 3.7.3
- # 17196
Steps to reproduce the issue
Create a field group
Add fields so you have a long list - for example every year from 2017 through 1990
Edit article to set custom field to year 1991 - you have to scroll far right on the page to get to it.
Expected result
Long lists of fields should wrap so they all fit on a screen without scrolling left/right
Actual result
System information (as much as possible)
Additional comments
| Status | New | ⇒ | Discussion |
I mean they are horizontal - not vertical. Or for that matter should be horizontal, but when they reach edge of screen, break to next line.
Now they are like this
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ....... until the scroll way off the screen.
If the screen were "3" units wide, should be:
1 | 2 | 3 |
4 | 5 | 6 |
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Because if you have a long list of items - it's not immediately apparent they are all there - as they are off-screen.
This is in the view, inside an article edit - NOT when creating the list.
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Are you sure that's a list. Please post a screenshot of the field settings
Can't confirm. Set a List from 1990 to 2017, got:
Sorry - it's a type of radio. My bad on that bit. The issue remains for long lists of radio buttons though. Here is a screen shot...
As you can see, my browser is stretched to 3/4 of a 27" 5k display and there is more off to the right. The black vertical is my desktop showing through past the browser port. Hope this helps!
| Status | Discussion | ⇒ | Confirmed |
Issue confirmed, changed Issue-Title.
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That's the way that the web works. You shouldn't use a radio for this
@brianteeman - sorry, that's just not appropriate. Why not? I if I need to program 12 radio buttons for my clients to use in a particular situation and they only have small screens they should deal with a buggy interface to select from the 12 (and can only see 6 or 4)? What if each radio was very long and only 3 showed? This is a bug. Thank you @franz-wohlkoenig for confirming it. I appreciate it and let me know if I can assist in testing or you need more.
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Sorry but it's nothing to do with how custom fields work but how html radio buttons work unless you can find an example elsewhere
It's exactly how radio buttons work - you get a choice of one from a list of X, and only one. That's how it is used here. It's done as radio because I need to enforce that no one uses multiples. So that aside, if someone programs a list of radio buttons to be available in an article - they need to be easily seen otherwise it's a bad UX.
You can't select more than one on a list either (unless you enable multiple selects).
What you want to do can only be done with a list. This is not a Joomla problem!
@peetwright using different field for a Decade like "1990-1999" and so on? As @brianteeman explained its expected Behaviour, so i'm closing this Issue.
| Status | Confirmed | ⇒ | Expected Behaviour |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2017-07-26 05:41:04 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | franz-wohlkoenig |
Set to "closed" on behalf of @franz-wohlkoenig by The JTracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/17196
You mean Custom Fields of Type "List" are not shown vertical but horizontal?
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