Issues with field order on form rendering

[barbieswimcrew]

Hey guys! I just realized that the order of the fields is not respected when rendering the form with

{{ form_start(form) }}
{{ form_rest(form) }}
{{ form_end(form) }}

The dependent fields are packed at the end instead of at the position where the addDependent method is located in the fluent interface of the form builder.

So for example:

$builder
    // ...
    ->add('fieldOne')
    ->addDependent('depFieldOne', ['fieldOne'], // ...)
    ->add('fieldTwo')
    ->addDependent('depFieldTwo', ['fieldTwo'], // ...)
    // ...

The rendered field order will be:

fieldOne
fieldTwo
depFieldOne
depFieldTwo

Is there a way to get the dependent fields in the correct order? I would expect the order:

fieldOne
depFieldOne
fieldTwo
depFieldTwo

Of course, I could render them in manual order by using {{ form_row(form.<fieldName>) }} but it would be just great if the correct order as defined in the builder would work out of the box ❤️

[leevigraham]

Symfony 5.3 added priority: https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-5-3-form-field-sorting which could work here.

https://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/forms/types/form.html#priority

My guess is that the dependent fields are being added in POST_SUBMIT which adds them to the end of the form.

[bocharsky-bw]

Good catch! @barbieswimcrew , could you give the form fields priority feature a try to see if that solves your issue?

[barbieswimcrew]

@leevigraham @bocharsky-bw sorry for my late reply... I tried priority now and it seems to work. Thanks for that hint! But... to be honest... I think it would still be much more fancy to use if the order of the form fields would follow the order the fields get defined in the form builder.