#32523: Warn when trying to use a widget as a field in a form
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Reporter: Anders Hovmöller | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Forms | Version: 3.1
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 1
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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A common mistake beginners make is to import `django.forms.Textarea` and
trying to use that as a Field, even though it's a widget. The result of
doing this is just silence, so it's very difficult for the user to solve
this problem by themselves.
We see this problem often in the Django Discord.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/32523>
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