View semantic components

We have seen how to organize the content in a form using structural components, such as header, group, and notebook. Now we can take a closer look at the semantic components, such as fields and buttons, and what we can do with them.

Fields

View fields have a few attributes available to them. Most of them have values taken from their definition in the model, but these can be overridden in the view.

Generic attributes, which do not depend on the field type, are:

• name identifies the field database name.
• string is the label text, to be used if we want to override the label text provided by the model definition.
• help is tooltip text shown when you hover the pointer over the field, and it allows you to override the help text provided by the model definition.
• placeholder is suggestion text to display inside the field.
• widget allows us to override the default widget used for the field. We will explore the available widgets in a moment.
• options is a JSON data structure with additional...