timeSelect()

Signature

timeSelect() — returns string

Available in: controller Category: Form Object Functions

Description

Builds and returns a string containing three select form controls for hour, minute, and second based on the supplied objectName and property.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
objectName	any	no	—	The variable name of the object to build the form control for.
property	string	no	—	The name of the property to use in the form control.
association	string	no	—	The name of the association that the property is located on. Used for building nested forms that work with nested properties. If you are building a form with deep nesting, simply pass in a list to the nested object, and Wheels will figure it out.
position	string	no	—	The position used when referencing a hasMany relationship in the association argument. Used for building nested forms that work with nested properties. If you are building a form with deep nestings, simply pass in a list of positions, and Wheels will figure it out.
order	string	no	hour,minute,second	Use to change the order of or exclude time select tags.
separator	string	no	:	Use to change the character that is displayed between the time select tags.
minuteStep	numeric	no	1	Pass in 10 to only show minute 10, 20, 30, etc.
secondStep	numeric	no	1	Pass in 10 to only show seconds 10, 20, 30, etc.
includeBlank	any	no	false	Whether to include a blank option in the select form control. Pass true to include a blank line or a string that should represent what display text should appear for the empty value (for example, ”- Select One -”).
label	string	no	false	The label text to use in the form control.
labelPlacement	string	no	around	Whether to place the label before, after, or wrapped around the form control. Label text placement can be controlled using aroundLeft or aroundRight.
prepend	string	no	—	String to prepend to the form control. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
append	string	no	—	String to append to the form control. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
prependToLabel	string	no	—	String to prepend to the form control’s label. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
appendToLabel	string	no	—	String to append to the form control’s label. Useful to wrap the form control with HTML tags.
errorElement	string	no	span	HTML tag to wrap the form control with when the object contains errors.
errorClass	string	no	field-with-errors	The class name of the HTML tag that wraps the form control when there are errors.
combine	boolean	no	—	Set to false to not combine the select parts into a single DateTime object.
twelveHour	boolean	no	false	whether to display the hours in 24 or 12 hour format. 12 hour format has AM/PM drop downs
encode	any	no	true	Use this argument to decide whether the output of the function should be encoded in order to prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks. Set it to true to encode all relevant output for the specific HTML element in question (e.g. tag content, attribute values, and URLs). For HTML elements that have both tag content and attribute values you can set this argument to attributes to only encode attribute values and not tag content.