Will be used as name and id attribute of the form. If you have more then one form on a page it's necessary to have different form names to make form validation work correctly.

Contains a hash ref which can specify a set of masks for the controls. A mask is a set of parameter which overwrite the setting of a control. You can specify a mask for a control name (key is name), for a control type (key is *type) or for all controls (key is *).

Example:

    {
    'info'      => { readonly => 1},
    '*textarea' => { cols => 80 },
    '*'         => { labelclass => 'myclass', labelnowrap => 1}
    }
    

This will force the control with the name "info" to be readonly, it will force all "textarea" controls to have 80 columns and it will force the label of all controls to have a class of myclass and not to wrap the text.

Contains a hash ref which can specify a set of defaults for the controls. You can specify a default for a control name (key is name), for a control type (key is *type) or for all controls (key is *).

Example:

    {
    'info'      => { readonly => 1},
    '*textarea' => { cols => 80 },
    '*'         => { labelclass => 'myclass', labelnowrap => 1}
    }
    

This will make the control with the name "info" to default to be readonly, it will default all "textarea" controls to have 80 columns and it will set the default class for the labels of all controls to myclass and not to wrap the text.

Language setting is used for Embperl::Form::Validate, e.g. 'en' or 'de'

Charset setting is used for Embperl::Form::Validate, e.g. 'utf-8'

valign for control cells. Defaults to 'top' .

Give the JavaScript Namespace. This allows one to load js files in a top frame or different frame, which will speed up page loading, because the browser does not need to reload the js code on every load.

Example:

    jsnamespace => 'top'
    

Gives the CSS class of the DIV around the form. Default cTableDiv.

If set to true, allows one to call the function diff_checkitems after the data is posted and see which form fields are changed.

Arrayref with package names to search for form controls. Alternatively you can overwrite the method get_control_packages.

Arrayref with package names to search for form data source modules. Alternatively you can overwrite the method get_datasrc_packages.