enhance-inputs

Enhance-inputs

A library to enhance native HTML inputs by additional functionality or just deuglify their default styles.

Disclaimer Don’t use it in production environments! This library was written for my own github repo demos and webapp helper UIs. However, feel free to use it or report bugs.

Features

Multiple input elements are enhanced

adds stylable SVG icons to various input types
setting cache: you can store updated input values either to local storage or via updated URL query parameters that can be used for sharing

Usage

IIFE: Load CSS and script

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/enhance-inputs@latest/dist/enhanceInputs.css">
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/enhance-inputs@latest/dist/enhanceInputs.js"></script>

Or use a local path.

Init

Auto init

For auto initialisation just add a data attribute to a container containing inputs that should be enhanced

<body  data-enhance-inputs='' aria-live="polite">

    <p>
        <label class="label">date</label>
        <input type="date" name="date">
    </p>

</body>

Accessibilty

Since we’re manipulating the DOM we should add the aria-live` attribute to the wrapping container like so

<div  data-enhance-inputs='' aria-live="polite">

Add parameters via data attribute

A stringified JSON object can be added to the data-enhance-inputs attribute:

    data-enhance-inputs='{"storageName":"enhance_inputs_settings","parent":"body","selector":"input, select, textarea","cacheToUrl":false,"cacheToStorage":false}'

adds these options

let options = {
    // local strorage name
    storageName: 'enhance_settings',

    // parent element
    parent: 'main',

    // input elements to enhance
    selector: 'input, select, textarea',

    // save updated input values to URL parameters
    cacheToUrl:false,

    // save input data to local storage
    cacheToStorage:false,

    // load only input icons or complete set
    icons: 'all'
}

IIFE: Manual init

let options = {
    storageName: 'enhance_settings',
    parent: 'main',
    selector: 'input, select, textarea',
    cacheToUrl:true,
    cacheToStorage:false,
    icons:''
}

// all settings are nor stored and updated on inputs to this variable
let settings = enhanceInputs(options);

ESM: Manual init

Import enhanceInputs() function in a module:

import { enhanceInputs } from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/enhance-inputs@latest/dist/enhanceInputs.esm.min.js";

let options = {
    storageName: 'enhance_settings',
    parent: 'main',
    selector: 'input, select, textarea',
    cacheToUrl:true,
    cacheToStorage:false,
}

let settings = enhanceInputs(options);

3. Listen to setting updates

By default enhanceInputs() returns a global setting variable that’s updated on any input event. Input updates trigger a custom event “settingsChange” you can use for custom UI processing.

document.addEventListener('settingsChange', () => {
    console.log('Settings changed:', settings);
});

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