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This form definition is part of the Magnolia 6 UI framework. The fully qualified class name is info.magnolia.ui.editor.FormDefinition.

If you work with the Magnolia 5 UI framework, see Form definition for Magnolia 5 UI instead.

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Example

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definition

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language	yml

form:
  properties:
    salutation:
      label: Salutation
      $type: textField
      i18n: true
    firstName:
      label: First name
      $type: textField
      required: true
    lastName:
      label: Last name
      $type: textField
      required: true
    email:
      label: Email
      $type: textField
      required: true
      validators:
        email:
          $type: emailValidator
    phone:
      label: Phone
      $type: textField
      required: true

The properties list here is defined with the YAML list syntax.

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Form properties

properties

required

A list List of editor property definition items (typically, a list of fields).

See Field definition for more information.

layout

optional, default is info.magnolia.ui.framework.layout.FormLayoutDefinition

Defines the form layout. The value must be a subtype of info.magnolia.ui.framework.layout.LayoutDefinition.

See Layout types for more information.

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$type	class
`declarativeLayout`	`info.magnolia.ui.framework.layout.DeclarativeLayoutDefinition`
`defaultEditorActionLayout`	`info.magnolia.ui.dialog.layout.DefaultEditorActionLayoutDefinition`
`formform` 6.2.1+	`info.magnolia.ui.framework.layout.FormLayoutDefinition`
`horizontal` 6.2.1+	`info.magnolia.ui.framework.layout.HorizontalLayoutDefinition`
`stacked`	`info.magnolia.ui.framework.layout.HorizontalLayoutDefinitionStackedLayoutProducer`
`tabbedLayout`	`info.magnolia.ui.framework.layout.TabbedLayoutDefinition`

Default layout

With the default layout

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className	info.magnolia.ui.framework.layout.FormLayoutDefinition
renderType	asynchronous

, it is not possible to configure anything. Use this layout when there is no need for customization.

From Magnolia 6.2.1, FormLayoutDefinition has replaced the deprecated PlainFormLayoutDefinition as the default layout.

Tabbed layout

With the tabbed layout, you can add or remove tabs and fields. It is not possible to change how any tabs and fields are rendered

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className	info.magnolia.ui.framework.layout.TabbedLayoutDefinition
renderType	asynchronous

, you can organize components into tabs.

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language	yml
title	Example tabbed layout definition
collapse	true

layout:
  $type: tabbedLayout
  tabs:
    personal:
      fields:
        - name: salutation
        - name: firstName
        - name: lastName
    details:
      fields:
        - name: email
        - name: phone
    address:
      fields:
        - name: streetAddress
        - name: postalCode
        - name: city
        - name: country

Horizontal layout

With

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className	info.magnolia.ui.framework.layout.HorizontalLayoutDefinition
renderType	asynchronous

, you can arrange With the horizontal layout, you can order components horizontally. To disable spacing between components, set the spacing property to false.

HorizontalLayoutDefinition has been introduced since Magnolia 6.2.1.

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language	yml
title	Example horizontal layout definition
collapse	true

compositelayout:
  $type: compositeFieldhorizontal
  labelfields: Name
  layout: horizontal
 - fieldsname: salutation
     - name$type: salutationtextField
      label: Salutation
    -  $typename: selectfirstName
      options$type: textField
      label: First name
    - name: Mr.lastName
          value$type: Mr.textField
      label: Last  name

Stacked layout

With

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className	info.magnolia.ui.framework.layout.StackedLayoutProducer
renderType	asynchronous

, you can arrange components vertically. Any captions are placed above the respective components, which means that more horizontal space is allocated to the components themselves. This is the default layout for composite fields.

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language	yml
title	Example stacked layout definition
collapse	true

layout:
  $type: stacked
  fields:
 label: Mr.
        - name: Mrs.salutation
          value$type: Mrs.textField
          label: Mrs.Salutation
    - name: firstName
      $type: texttextField
      label: First name
    - name: lastName
      $type: texttextField
      label: Last name

Declarative layout

With the declarative layout

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className	info.magnolia.ui.framework.layout.DeclarativeLayoutDefinition
renderType	asynchronous

, you can create form entries in an arbitrary Vaadin component container using the Vaadin declarative syntax. Use this layout for full customization.

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If `VerticalLayout.java` is stored in `src/main/java/info/magnolia/contacts/layout`, `my-style.css` should be added to `src/main/resources/info/magnolia/contacts/layout`.

Action layout

With

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className	info.magnolia.ui.dialog.layout.DefaultEditorActionLayoutDefinition
renderType	asynchronous

, you can define an action area in both dialogs and the detail subapps of content apps. This is the default layout for footers and includes predefined primary and secondary actions.

To learn about the layout properties, see footerLayout.

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