On May 10, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Juancho wrote:
> > Hello, > > I am trying to get a SelectField to render with a default value, i.e., > a pre-selected choice. > > With the current SelectField implementation, this is not possible. I > see this issue has been addressed before but was closed as "wontfix" > with this reason: > > "This is not in the scope of the formfields.py framework. Formfields > just know how to display themselves -- they don't know (or care) about > data. Put this in your business logic." > > More here ... > http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1081 > > Can someone explain to me the expected way to render a select field > with selected value?? The only way i can see currently is to > implement > my own custom SelectField which will render HTML with a default value. > > I don't understand how formfields can not "know (or care) about data" > when they are bound to a specific data list in the first place, in > order to even display a list of data to select from. As Adrian pointed out, formfields don't know about data, the way to prepopulate a selection is to use a FormWrapper. In fact, if you look at the documentation for FormWrapper: class FormWrapper: """ A wrapper linking a Manipulator to the template system. This allows dictionary-style lookups of formfields. It also handles feeding prepopulated data and validation error messages to the formfield objects. """ Don --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
