Ability to control the id and name attributes of the Date input items

Currently the id and name are auto generated in the macro:

    "id": params.id + "-" + item.name,
    "name": params.name + "-" + item.name

I need more control over these. For example, let say I am capturing a DoB of a person:

<input type="number" name="person[dob].day" />
<input type="number" name="person[dob].month" />
<input type="number" name="person[dob].year" />

Would it be possible to include this capability?

[36degrees]

@davidjamesstone just to let you know that we’ve now merged #984 which addresses #909 by renaming the name argument to namePrefix – it’ll be part of the next release of Frontend, which we expect to be v2.0.

Thanks again for raising this and helping to improve Frontend! 👍

[36degrees]

Thanks, I will keep an eye out for a documentation PR 👍 🎉

I’m going to split this into two issues so that we can track each one separately:

• https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/issues/909 tracks the date input’s name argument
• https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/issues/907 tracks the bug with the width classes – I’ve also raised a PR which should address this.

I’ve tried my best to summarise each issue, but please do feel free to add anything I might have missed.

I think that covers everything discussed in this issue, so I’m going to close this now. Please do re-open it or file another issue if you need to.