Help field doesn't render in blade @section

[emarref]

In a Laravel 5.3 project, when a field has a help block set (with bootstrap 3 renderer), the help block is not rendered if the call to open the form is not within the same view file.

E.g. I am rendering test1.blade.php. This view extends test2.blade.php. The test2 view opens and renders a form, and @yield()s a section. The test1 view uses @section to populate this area, and contains a field with a help block.

Given the below gist:

https://gist.github.com/emarref/247ed16e7c3b1601fe03fadc09d025dd

Field 2 renders its help block, but field 1 doesn't. I'd expect both help blocks to render.

[claar]

I looked into this -- thanks for the gist, which made reproducing this so much easier.

Due to the way Laravel @yield and @section work, in your example the Former calls are executed in this unintuitive order:

{!! Former::vertical_open()->id('milkTrackerSetup') !!}
{!! Former::number('field2')->blockhelp('This is the help for field2.') !!}
{!! Former::close() !!}

{!! Former::number('field1')->blockhelp('This is the help for field1.') !!}

As you can see, the Former::number('field1') call is happening outside of the open() and close() calls, which is not currently supported by Former. Former is very stateful in its design, so fields created outside of Former::open() and Former:close() have undefined behavior.

As a workaround, consider using @include instead of @yield as per this fork of your gist: https://gist.github.com/claar/3aacc115a8375bc2b7167088535c9809

[emarref]

OK, thanks for looking into it, and also for providing the workaround.