Thanks. I will try the quotes for now. I am just building a prototype now. Will quickly move to django form library.
-G On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Thomas Guettler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > please try this: > <option value="{{ machine.product_name }}"> > > BTW, I would use the form library of django. It helps you to reduce > bugs and ist easy to use. > > Rule of thumb: Don't access request.GET or request.POST. Give one of these > dictionaries to your form. > > Thomas > > Govindarajan wrote: >> First off I have to say that I am new to django. I am trying to get a >> value from drop down select in HTML part. This value has spaces in it. >> However, when I retrieve it in the view code only the text up to the >> first space gets retrieved. Is there a to retrieve the whole string >> with all the spaces preserved? >> >> Thanks, >> Govind >> >> >> >> HTML TEMPLATE: >> >> <select name="machine"> >> <option value='all'>ALL</option> >> {% for machine in machines %} >> >> <option value= {{ machine.product_name }} > {{ >> machine.product_name}} >> </option> >> {% endfor %} >> </select> >> >> >> find.py: >> >> if key == 'product': >> value = request.GET['product'] >> Log('%s' %value) >> if not (value == 'all'): >> cores = cores.filter(product__build_num=value) >> > > -- > Thomas Guettler, http://www.thomas-guettler.de/ > E-Mail: guettli (*) thomas-guettler + de > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > 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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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.
