Give me some control of how the form template post is styled

[ganncamp (G Ann Campbell)]

We aren’t fans of how the post resulting from a form template is styled.

Here’s what I expected to see:

Label: answer
Label: answer
Label: answer

See the markdown

**Label:** answer
**Label:** answer
**Label:** answer

Here’s what we got:

label

answer

label

answer

label

answer

See the markdown

> ### label
> answer
> 
> 
> 
> ### label
> answer
> 
> 
> ### label
> answer

We’d love some control over this. In the meantime, I’m looking at making forms with spaces for labels (that way the * still shows up for required fields).

That yields something like this

answer

answer

answer

See the markdown

###
answer


###
answer


### 
answer

There’s still too much whitespace, but it’s… less unappealing.

Suggestion: How about making this an attribute of the form input? E.G.

- type: input
  id: rule
  attributes:
    label: "Label"
    placeholder: "say something!"
    answer-styling: bold
  validations:
    required: true

[ganncamp (G Ann Campbell)]

Following up on alternate presentations…

After showing my team this form & the resulting post output this morning in standup, the responses were

We’re missing the formatting toolbar at the top… I’m realizing I don’t want a form that makes a post; I want a normal post with some required fields

and

I wish these fields could be in a little box at the top [of the resulting post] or on the side or something

So… we’re eager to see how this evolves.

[nolo (Manuel)]

@ganncamp

We’re missing the formatting toolbar at the top… I’m realizing I don’t want a form that makes a post; I want a normal post with some required fields

For this use case you could just edit the regular topic template of a category:

@ganncamp

I wish these fields could be in a little box at the top [of the resulting post] or on the side or something

And this could probably be achieved using the Discourse Templates plugin?

In any case… so many template options

[ganncamp (G Ann Campbell)]

Hi,

@nolo

For this use case you could just edit the regular topic template of a category:

We’ve got ‘normal’ templates in place in the relevant categories. That doesn’t mean that people provide the data they ask for.

@nolo

@ganncamp

I wish these fields could be in a little box at the top [of the resulting post] or on the side or something

And this could probably be achieved using the Discourse Templates plugin?

Ehm… No. This was about the presentation of the data gathered from form inputs.

Thanks, tho.

[Jayne_ivana (Jayne)]

+1 to the feature request.

And on a similar note, to give users the standard formatting toolbar for short and/or long-form textbox answers.