Error message does not take up space in form

[daviddkkim]

Closes #232

Changes

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I added new styling container on top of the form error message so that when an error message appears, it does not take up spacing.

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There is one caveat. This means that developers using clockface have to add in the right spacing after the input element so that this does not happen:

Or I can make it so that it has built in spacing out of the box. @mavarius do you have thoughts on which one might be preferable?

I see good reasons for having pre-defined spacing to prevent the overlap (easy out of the box) and also not having it (more freedom).

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[mavarius]

I think having the built-in spacing is good. It means all our forms will be a bit more vertically spaced, but that might be ok. Just review how it looks across the application to avoid any unforeseen side effects.

[daviddkkim]

@mavarius So here's a snippet of what the forms will look like with "built-in" spacing. I'm starting to think that we should leave the error message spacing behavior alone because built-in spacing throws off the vertical rhythm of the form elements and without built-in spacing, the error message overlaps with the component below. Especially if you look at the label creation form where there are multiple inputs in the form, it looks off

But I am all for changing the behavior of when there is help text + error text!

What do you think about the spacing issue?

[mavarius]

We could reduce the distance between the bottom of the error text and the top of the next element. If we absolute position the error text, then we can maintain a consistent distance between elements and have just a little less space when the error text is present without overlapping text.

Imagine this, but with 4px between the bottom of the error text and the top of the next label.

[daviddkkim]

Yeah I like this. More spacing less crowded.

1st pictures are the original, the second nad third are the new forms with the built in spacing everywhere.
I posted this in UI channel just to make sure others are okay with this change too !

@mavarius