Textbox - why so much bloated markup / HTML ?

[jchau]

I want to display a simple textbox in a page. The TextField component wraps the input in a table with 3 cells. If I am not putting the TextField on a form or using form layout, is there a way to make it generate less bloated markups?

[friend]

The extra markup ensures a consistent size and style across browsers. It's a personal opinion, but I don't think a few extra DOM objects are going to cause your application that much grief.

As an alternative, you could always just use a plain old HTML input field; but then you'd have to style it/label it/size it/event handle it in a cross-browser compatible way, where this would consitute a lot of manual code/CSS, etc...

[suzuki1100nz]

As per Friends comments it also has additional element to cater for error message positions and the label etc...

You can create a simple version by extending Ext.form.field.Text and overidding the
relevant tpl e.g. renderTpl, labelableRenderTpl