From 83a0dfa9c88eac62cab4dded6664e5f133ab8d37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mischa POSLAWSKY <perl@shiar.org>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 09:24:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] word edit: dynamically aligned form styling (emulate table)

---
 writer.plp | 95 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/writer.plp b/writer.plp
index 9c74b0a..9d67520 100644
--- a/writer.plp
+++ b/writer.plp
@@ -6,27 +6,39 @@ Html({
 	nocache => 1,
 	raw => <<'EOT',
 <style>
-dd > input {
+dl {
+	display: inline-grid;
+	grid: auto-flow / min-content repeat(10, auto);
+}
+
+form > ul {
+	display: table;
+	border-spacing: 0 2px;
+}
+form > ul li {
+	display: table-row;
+}
+form > ul li > * {
+	display: table-cell;
+	padding-right: .5em;
+}
+form > ul li > label {
+	/* th */
+	text-align: right;
+}
+form > ul li > label + * {
+	/* td */
 	width: 32em;
-	max-width: 100%;
-	padding: 1ex;
-	font-family: monospace;
 }
-dl > dt, dl > dd {
-	float: none;
-	display: inline-block;
+
+form > ul li > p input {
 	box-sizing: border-box;
-	width: 50%;
-	margin: 0;
-	line-height: 4ex;
-	vertical-align: text-top;
+	width: 100%;
+	padding: .4rem;
+	font-family: monospace;
 }
-dd > img {
+form > ul li img {
 	max-width: 300px;
-	display: block;
-}
-dd input ~ button {
-	margin-left: -5em;
 }
 
 ul.popup {
@@ -44,16 +56,29 @@ ul.popup {
 	border: 1px solid #CCC;
 }
 
-section {
-	position: absolute;
-	top: 7ex;
-	right: 1em;
+h1 {
+	margin-bottom: 1ex;
 }
-section > ul {
-	margin-top: 1ex;
+.inline {
+	display: inline-flex;
+	align-items: start;
+	margin: 0 -1ex; /* inner gap */
 }
-section > ul strong, section form {
-	line-height: 2;
+.inline > * {
+	margin: 0 1ex;
+}
+.inline .inline {
+	display: flex;
+}
+
+#nav {
+	-margin-left: 1em; /* flex gap */
+}
+#nav > ul,
+#nav > ul strong,
+#nav form {
+	margin: 1ex 0;
+	display: inline-block;
 }
 </style>
 
@@ -199,25 +224,27 @@ my $title = $row->{id} ? "entry <small>#$row->{id}</small>" : 'new entry';
 :>
 <h1>Words <:= $title :></h1>
 
+<div class="inline">
+
 <form action="?" method="post">
 <input id="id" name="id" value="<:= $row->{id} // '' :>" type="hidden" />
-<dl>
+<ul>
 <:
 
 for my $col (pairs @wordcols) {
 	my $val = $row->{$col->key} // '';
 	$val = '{'.join(',', map {s/,/\\,/gr} @{$val}).'}' if ref $val eq 'ARRAY';
-	printf '<dt><label for="%s">%s</label></dt>'
-		. '<dd><input id="%1$s" name="%1$s" value="%s" />',
+	printf '<li><label for="%s">%s</label><p><span class=inline>'
+		. '<input id="%1$s" name="%1$s" value="%s" />',
 		$col->key, $col->value, Entity($val);
-	-e and printf ' <img src="/%s" alt="%s" />', $_, $row->{form} for
+	-e and printf '<img src="/%s" alt="%s" />', $_, $row->{form} for
 		$col->key eq 'source' ? "data/word/org/$row->{id}.jpg" :
 		$col->key eq 'thumb'  ? "data/word/eng/$row->{form}.jpg" :
 		();
-	say '</dd>';
+	say '</span></p></li>';
 }
 :>
-</dl>
+</ul>
 <p>
 	<input type="submit" value="Save" />
 	<input type="submit" value="New" formaction="/writer?copy=cat" />
@@ -225,9 +252,9 @@ for my $col (pairs @wordcols) {
 </form>
 
 <:
-$row->{id} or exit;
+if ($row->{id}) {
 :>
-<section>
+<section id="nav">
 <h2>Hierarchy</h2>
 
 <:
@@ -249,3 +276,7 @@ while (my $ref = $children->hash) {
 </form></li>
 </ul>
 </section>
+<:
+}
+:>
+</div>
-- 
2.30.0