Keltus, The patch I mentioned in that thread solved the problem of validating the input. For the rendering of the form, you also need to patch the widget as follows:
AuthenticationForm.base_fields['username'].widget.attrs['maxlength'] = 75 Note that here 'maxlength' doesn't take an underscore. Regards, Julien On Aug 30, 4:04 pm, keltus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After many frustrating hours, I have yet to monkey patch the > form.username variable from: > <input id="id_username" type="text" name="username" maxlength="30" /> > to > <input id="id_username" type="text" name="username" maxlength="75" /> > > In my urls.py file, I added: > from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm > AuthenticationForm.base_fields['username'].max_length = 75 > AuthenticationForm.base_fields['username'].label = "Email" > > This is suggested by Julien in his > post:http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/msg/3420dc565df39fb1 > > I found that {{ form.username.label_tag }} will print "Email" as > expected, but {{ form.username }} still prints a max_length of 30. > > I tested using: > assert False, dir(AuthenticationForm.base_fields['username']) > and indeed the max_length field is 75 (and before my code, it's 30 as > expected) > > Why won't the maxlength html field change to 75? This perplexes me. > > This is using django 1.0 beta 1, but I've also tried with django 1.0 > beta 2 and django svn trunk. > > Please advise. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
