You may want to look at Django crispy forms as a way to simplify form creation and layout;
For example, handling of checkboxes: http://django-crispy-forms.readthedocs.org/en/latest/layouts.html#bootstrap-layout-objects On Wednesday, 6 January 2016 06:39:31 UTC+2, Michael Molloy wrote: > > My model: > > class Product(models.Model): > descr = models.CharField(max_length=100) > cost = models.DecimalField(max_digits=5, decimal_places=2) > > > For every row stored in the table represented by this model, in the > template I would like to render the description and a checkbox so that the > user can check it if he wants to buy it. > > > Product 1 <input type=checkbox name=prodName1 value='Y'/> > Product 2 <input type=checkbox name=prodName2 value='Y'/> > Product 2 <input type=checkbox name=prodName3 value='Y'/> > > > > I can't figure out how to do that. I would be happy to manually render the > form fields as checkboxes, but I don't know how to get the field id in the > template. > > > For example, > > > {% for field in form %} > > > <div id="{{ field.auto_id }}_container"> > > <div> > <label for="{{ field.auto_id }}">{{ field. }}:</label> <input id= > "id_test1" name="test1" type="checkbox" /> > </div> > <!-- > <div id="id_test1_errors"> > > </div> > --> > </div> > > > {{ field.help_text }} > <div> > {{ field.label_tag }} {{ field }} > </div> > {% endfor %} > > > If this were java, I would write something like this in the jsp: > > > <c:forEach var="row" items="${products.result.rows}"> > <input type=checkbox name='<c:out value=${row.id}/>' value='Y' /> <c:out > value=${row.descr} /> > > </c:forEach> > > But I don't know how to do that with Python and Django. > > > And I may be coming at this totally wrong, so if that is the case, please > feel free to tell me how I should be trying to do this. > > > Thank you, > > --Michael > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/1e991fa0-84c4-48ac-b226-cfb68a133886%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
