Action for input assistant

Question

I have a text box that I want to have “dynamic” placeholder text (defined and managed in the view), but I also want it to have an action specific to it. I tried the following two lines:

{{ input id="test" placeholder=view.text action expand target="view"}} <input type="text" id="test" placeholder="{{view.text}}" {{action expand target="view"}} /> 

Both do not work. So my question is: is there a way to achieve what I want, or would it be easier to have a focus handler in the view that just filters for id (and then calls the extension function)?

Answer 1

You can try to do it like this:

 <input type="text" id="test" {{bindAttr placeholder=view.text}} {{action expand target="view"}} /> 

See here for a working example.

Hope this helps

Answer 2

If you want to use input helpers, you can do something like this:

 {{input placeholder=view.text action="expand" targetObject=view}} 

Note that targetObject must not be a string.