#35880: Consistency and improvements to the form fields document.
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Reporter: Antoliny | Type:
| Cleanup/optimization
Status: new | Component:
| Documentation
Version: 5.1 | Severity: Normal
Keywords: Form Fields | Triage Stage:
Document | Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Hello!
I created an issue by finded the wrong parts and the good parts when
improved in the Form fields document.
1.
[https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/ref/forms/fields/#django.forms.Field.required
Field.requried section ] invalid example.
{{{
>>> from django import forms
>>> f = forms.CharField()
...
>> f.clean(" ")
' '
}}}
In the example passed a character string with spaces as a factor in the
clean method to a CharField instance.
This part is cleared space by CharField's to_python method, result is an
empty_value so occur validation error.
{{{
class CharField(Field):
...
def to_python(self, value):
"""Return a string."""
if value not in self.empty_values:
value = str(value)
if self.strip:
value = value.strip() # before value: " ", after value:
""
if value in self.empty_values:
return self.empty_value
return value
...
}}}
However, in the current document, a string containing spaces seems to pass
through the clean method.
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2.
[https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/ref/forms/fields/#django.forms.Field.label
Field.label section] unclear part -> ("outputting forms as HTML" above)
It is unclear what " 'Outputting forms as HTML' above" refers to in the
Field label section.
This part probably means the
[https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/ref/forms/api/#outputting-forms-as-
html "Outputting forms as HTML" section] of the Forms API Document.
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3. Consistency "fallback" and link message
This part is very trivial :)
The word "fallback" used in the
[https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/ref/forms/fields/#django.forms.Field.initial
field initial section] are two values "fallback" and "fall back".
{{{
"Also note that initial values are not used as "fallback" ...
---
>>> f.is_valid()
False
# The form does *not* fall back to using ....
...
}}}
I think it would be better to include documentation in the message set as
a link.
(Like the link message used in
[https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/ref/forms/fields/#validators
validators section].)
{{{
``localize``
------------
.. attribute:: Field.localize
The ``localize`` argument enables the localization of form data input, as
well
as the rendered output.
See the :doc:`format localization </topics/i18n/formatting>` documentation
for # --> See the :doc:`format localization </topics/i18n/formatting>
documentation` for more information.
}}}
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