Extending Em.TextField - ember.js

Question

I need to make a bootstrap form with 10 textfield elements.
From the bootstrap doc, I need to have this code for each textfield element:
<div class="control-group">
<label class="control-label" for="inputEmail">Email</label>
<div class="controls">
<input type="text" id="inputEmail" placeholder="Email">
</div>
</div>
Em.TextField object only manage the
<input type="text...
and I would like to minimize my handlebar form.
What is the best solution to have the expected result with the minimum of code ?
Is there a sample code for this ?

Answer 1

You can create a new view that includes all of the required bootstrap markup and incorporates the built in Ember.TextField input element. The custom TextField has an added label property that sets the text for the form label.
JSBin Example
Custom TextField:
JS:
App.BootstrapTextFieldView = Ember.View.extend({
templateName: 'bootstrapTextField',
inputElement: null
});
Handlebars:
<script type="text/x-handlebars" data-template-name='bootstrapTextField'>
<div class='control-group'>
<label class="control-label" {{bindAttr for='view.inputElement.elementId'}}>{{view.label}}</label>
<div class="controls">
{{view Ember.TextField valueBinding='view.value' viewName="inputElement"}}
</div>
</div>
</script>
Using the new view
You would use it similar to using the normal Ember.TextField:
<form class="form-horizontal">
{{view App.BootstrapTextFieldView valueBinding='textFieldValue' labelBinding='textFieldLabel'}}
</form>
The only tricky part was correctly setting the for='..." property on the <label> since we need to get the auto-generated id of the {{view Ember.TextField ...}}. This can be done by using the viewName property of the {{view ...}} helper. Setting {{view App.theViewHere viewName='desiredViewName' lets us access the instance of Ember.TextField we created and set the for property of the label to the view's id using the {{bindAttr...}} helper.