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Input components are normally used inside forms. A form in DomUI is not a component but is built by a FormBuilder, a special class which helps with creating a nice layout for a form. The result of a FormBuilder is a set of Nodes with special styles that together with the components should force them to look nice.
The current "best version" of a FormBuilder is the FormBuilder from package form4. This formbuilder allows building both vertical (default) and horizontal forms, and uses data binding extensively.
Vertical forms for form4
A vertical form is built using a table. The table has class ui-f4 and ui-f4-v, the latter indicates that the form is a vertical form.
Each row is a single label/control pair (unless the format is manually altered).
In most cases the label is some kind of text, and the control contains something like an input, select or display text. To look correct it is of big importance that the baselines of the labels and the texts inside the controls match up, like this:
