What you want to do is perfectly doable. If (for example) you want the
street field to show up as a textarea with 40 columns in your form, you
would put something like this in your forms.py:
class PersonForm(ModelForm):
street = forms.CharField(widget = forms.TextArea(attrs = {"cols":40}))
class Meta:
model = Person
fields = ['name', 'notes', 'email', 'cellphone',
'officephone', 'skypename', 'street', 'number', 'suffix', 'zip',
'city', 'country', 'photo']
You can of-course do this with any field and use any widget for said field.
Best,
R
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Wim Feijen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello people,
>
> Being able to work with Django is very helpful to me. However, I am
> unsure whether I can create a form out of a database model and then
> customize that form. Using widgets to increase the textarea to 40
> would be great! But after reading the documentation I am convinced I
> cannot do that.
>
> One solution I can think of, is to loop over the fields in the form
> and start changing those? Is that possible? Then again, is that the
> proper way to do it?
>
> My models are below.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Wim
>
> ----
>
> class Person(models.Model):
> name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
> notes = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
> email = models.EmailField(max_length=100, blank=True)
> cellphone = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
> officephone = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
> chat = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
> skypename = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
> street = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
> number = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
> suffix = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
> zip = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
> city = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
> country = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
> photo = models.ImageField(upload_to='.', blank=True)
> company = models.ManyToManyField(Company)
> groups = models.ManyToManyField(Group)
> deleted = models.BooleanField(default=False)
> shared = models.ManyToManyField(User, related_name='shared')
> owner = models.ForeignKey(User)
>
> def __str__(self):
> return self.name
>
> class PersonForm(ModelForm):
> class Meta:
> model = Person
> fields = ['name', 'notes', 'email', 'cellphone',
> 'officephone', 'skypename', 'street', 'number', 'suffix', 'zip',
> 'city', 'country', 'photo']
>
> >
>
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