Sencha Touch Cookbook

Grouping fields with FieldSet

FieldSet is used to logically group together elements in a form, an example of which we saw in the first recipe of this chapter. This recipe shows how the Sencha Touch class can be used to create and group items under FieldSet.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have set up your development environment by following the recipes outlined in Chapter 1.

Make sure that you have followed the Getting your form ready with FormPanel recipe in this chapter.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps:

1. Copy ch02_01.js to ch02_12.js.
2. Open a new file named ch02_12.js and replace the definition of formBase with the following code:

   var formBase = { items: [ { xtype: 'fieldset', title: 'About Me', items: [ { xtype: 'textfield', name : 'firstName', ...