On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 22:08 +0000, gkelly wrote: > My apologies if this is in the documentation somewhere, I have not been > able to find it. > > Is there a django HTML class that I can import in my views? Basically, > I have a database table with columns for describing an HTML form > element. So an entry might look like: > label=Name, type=text, maxlength=64 > > and then my view would go through and decide that this should be an > input field, type text, with max length 64. There will be entries for > all sorts of HTML form elements. > > So I am thinking that there has got to be a django class that I can > utilize rather than having to repeat previous efforts.
No, there isn't anything like this in Django. The places in Django core that create forms use the default field representation for each model field and use custom manipulators where they aren't directly tied to models. It should be fairly easy to write one of these for your purposes, though, since each class in django/forms/__init__.py takes virtually identical arguments to its constructor, so you won't have to right more than a couple of words of code (say, a dictionary key and value) for each new type after you get the first one right, I would suspect. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
