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.
>
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