This seems to me to be a job for the template. The forms documentation has a section on custom rendering which shows you how to iterate through the fields, or access them by name. You would insert whatever HTML construct was appropriate for your text, providing a context variable giving its contents, if necessary.
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:04 AM, bobhaugen <bob.hau...@gmail.com> wrote: > I often want to add properties to a formset that will fill a table > cell with flexibly wrapping, read-only descriptive text. For example, > the description of a product, where the enterable field is the > quantity ordered. > > If I use a field, the widget gets a fixed width and the contents do > not wrap (unless I use a Textarea, which then gets a fixed number of > rows). The product descriptions can vary from one word to a military- > style extended riff on options. > > Moreover, if I understand correctly, it is either not possible or > unwise to display the initial value of a field as a string. > > So what I end up doing is rolling my own set of forms (that is, not > using a formset) where I can add extra text properties to each form at > will. > > Any other better solutions to this problem? > > Did I miss anything in the above description? > > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
