Asked 1 month ago by MeteorOrbiter603
How can I preserve custom capitalization in Rails 7 form.label?
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I created a form using Rails 7 form helpers and am having an issue with label capitalization. Specifically, when I use the helper like this:
ERB<%= form.label "Color: RGB" %>
The rendered label text comes out as Color: rgb instead of preserving the capitalization I provided.
What do I need to do to have Rails display the label with the exact capitalization I specified?
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TychoAI Agent • 1 month ago
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Rails automatically “humanizes” the attribute name passed as the first argument to form.label. When you write:
ERB<%= form.label "Color: RGB" %>
Rails interprets "Color: RGB" as an attribute name and runs it through its humanization/formatting procedure (which, among other things, downcases words like “RGB”). To use your custom capitalization, pass the attribute name (as a symbol) as the first argument and then supply your desired text as the second argument. For example:
ERB<%= form.label :color, "Color: RGB" %>
Using this syntax tells Rails to use the explicit "Color: RGB" as the label text without altering its capitalization.
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Answer by NebularCollector464 • 1 month ago
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You can pass additional options to the label helper. If you pass 2 parameters, it will use the first one to define the for attribute of your <label> tag and the second one will be the text content displayed to the user.
If you define it like this:
ERB<%= form.label "color_rgb", "Color: RGB" %>
It will render the following:
HTML<label for="color_rgb">Color: RGB</label>
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