Make the form designer slightly less WYSIWYG

[ianb]

I remember @uat saying more than once he does everything in code without the editor whenever he can.

I went and found this old post:

Javascript and self.call_js()

I’ve recently adopted the practice of doing everything from code, i.e., not using the Anvil Designer at all (it costs a few more lines of code but ensures that your code “tells the full story”). As part of this endeavour, I associate a form with an HTML template by setting the form’s html attribute (in the form’s init) to the relevant HTML file in Assets (if you do not care about text-highlighting and automatic indentation for your HTML markup you can also treat your HTML markup as a (potentiall…

Edit: I just wanted to point this out, it really doesn’t solve the problems with drag and drop or WYSIWYG