Is there a way to disable default formtastic layout?

For one specific case I would like to render the form as a part of (for in-place editing). Is there a way in formtastic to disable the layout generated by .inputs / .buttons? Instead a

<fieldset> <ol> <li> 

i would lik开发者_StackOverflow社区e simply to wrap the fields in the

<td>

Is there a build-in way or any solution to this problem?

There's no built in way (yet) in Formtastic to change the mark-up. Either use CSS to tweak the ample mark-up hooks in place, or ditch Formtastic for this form and code your own way (like we used to).

It's not yet supported, however you can use forked formtastic version: https://github.com/linoj/formtastic

More details at: http://www.vaporbase.com/postings/Replaceable_render_engines_for_Formtastic

Read on the formtastic forum that it might be even merge to origin someday.

In rails you can overrite the functions that define the tags that are used to render elements:

config/initializers/formtastic_foundation.rb:

# change required fields advice tag (abbr -> span)
Formtastic::FormBuilder.required_string =
proc { Formtastic::Util.html_safe(%{<span title="#{Formtastic::I18n.t(:required)}">*</span>}) }

module Formtastic
  module Helpers
    # change field wrapper (ol -> div)
    module FieldsetWrapper
      protected
      def field_set_and_list_wrapping(*args, &block) #:nodoc:
        contents = args.last.is_a?(::Hash) ? '' : args.pop.flatten
        html_options = args.extract_options!

        if block_given?
          contents = if template.respond_to?(:is_haml?) && template.is_haml?
          template.capture_haml(&block)
          else
            template.capture(&block)
          end
        end

        contents = contents.join if contents.respond_to?(:join)

        legend = field_set_legend(html_options)
          fieldset = template.content_tag(:fieldset,
          Formtastic::Util.html_safe(legend) << template.content_tag(:div, Formtastic::Util.html_safe(contents)),
          html_options.except(:builder, :parent, :name)
        )

        fieldset
      end
    end
  end

  module Inputs
    module Base
      # change input wrapper tag (li.default_clases -> div.large-12.columns inside div.row)
      module Wrapping
        def input_wrapping(&block)
          def super_wrapper_html_options
            {:class => 'row'}
          end

          new_class = [wrapper_html_options[:class], "large-12 columns"].compact.join(" ")

          template.content_tag(:div,
            template.content_tag(:div,
              [template.capture(&block), error_html, hint_html].join("\n").html_safe,
              wrapper_html_options.merge(:class => new_class)),
            super_wrapper_html_options)
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

I use this code to integrate Formtastic 3 with Foundation 5.4.5

I wrapped my call to the formtastic bit (in my haml file) in a string and then subbed out the

= "#{f.input ...}".gsub('<li class=', '<fart class=').html_safe #remove the li to align this input with the other text in the table. 

It's a might bit easier than re-writing the form without formtastic, and it worked perfectly.

Admittedly it's a not an ideal solution. For a one off though... I can live with it.