better placeholder/value setting

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/templates/logbookform.html b/templates/logbookform.html
index 69a671f..1aea60c 100644
--- a/templates/logbookform.html
+++ b/templates/logbookform.html
@@ -24,42 +24,45 @@
        {% csrf_token %}              
     <br />                 
        
-          <label for="date">Date of the activity</label>
+           <label for="date">Date of the activity</label>
            <input {% if not user.username %} disabled{% endif %} 
            label = "Date" name = "date" size="12"
            title="Date of the activity, a single day,  in ISO format: 2020-08-17"
-           placeholder="{% if date %}{{date}}{% else %}2023-08-01{% endif %}" " required /> 
+           {% if date %}value="{{date}}"{% else %}placeholder="2023-08-12"{% endif %}
+           required /> 
     <br /><br />       
            <label for="author">Your name (author) <a href="/aliases/{{year}}">[valid authors]</a></label>
            <input {% if not user.username %} disabled{% endif %} 
            label = "author" name = "author" size="20"
            title="The person writing the logbook entry"
-           placeholder="{{author}}"  required /> 
+           {% if author %}value="{{author}}"{% else %}placeholder="Animal"{% endif %}
+           required /> 
     <br /><br />        
            <label for="others">Other names (comma separated) <a href="/aliases/{{year}}">[valid aliases]</a></label>
            <input {% if not user.username %} disabled{% endif %} 
            label = "others" name = "others" size="20"
            title="Everyone else involved"
-           placeholder="Phil T, Chas, Planc"  /> 
+           {% if others %}value="{{others}}"{% else %}placeholder="Phil T, Chas, Planc" {% endif %}
+           required /> 
     <br /><br />         
            <label for="place">Place: cave name, or 'plateau', 'topcamp' etc.</label>
            <input {% if not user.username %} disabled{% endif %} 
            label = "Place" name = "place" size="15"
            title="Place: cave name, or 'plateau', 'topcamp'  "
-           placeholder="basecamp"   required /> 
+           {% if place %}value="{{place}}"{% else %}placeholder="basecamp" {% endif %}
+           required /> 
     <br /><br />        
            <label for="title">Title</label>
            <input {% if not user.username %} disabled{% endif %} 
            label = "Title" name = "title" size="30"
-           title="What we did on our holidays"
-           placeholder="What we did on our holidays"  required /> 
+           title="Title of your activity"
+           {% if place %}value="{{title}}"{% else %}placeholder="What we did on our holidays" {% endif %}
+           required /> 
     <br /><br /> 
-           <label for="title"></label>
            <textarea {% if not user.username %} disabled{% endif %} 
            rows="5" cols="60"
            label = "" name = "text" 
-           title="We had a lot of fun..."
-           placeholder="We had a lot of fun..."  required />We had a lot of fun...
+           required />{% if entry %}{{entry}}{% else %}We had a lot of fun...{% endif %}
            </textarea>
            <br>
            [Type in text in <a href="/handbook/logbooks.html#format">Logbook HTML format</a>.]