On Jan 29, 4:57 pm, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/29/07 3:28 PM, Mike wrote:
>
> > Can anyone share information regarding the current timeline and plans
> > for newforms and integrating newforms with generic views?Generally we don't
> > really put out "timelines" per-se.
>
> You see, we're all volunteers around here, and committing to a solid timeline
> seems the best way to ensure that we miss it. Until we've got people who
> actually get paid full-time to work on Django[*], this is how it'll be.
>
> > I did look
> > over the website and searched the archives of the dev group but didn't
> > see a recent estimate. I'd gladly help out, but I'm somewhat new to
> > Django and it seems there are already quite a few chefs in the
> > kitchen. ;)Actually, though, there hasn't been anyone who's (so far)
> > volunteered to work
> on bring newforms into generic views. So, if that's something you'd like to
> work on, we'd all love it if you jump on over to django-dev and offer your
> services.
>
> > What led me down this path--besides general interest and planning
> > concerns--is an investigation into how best to present errors using
> > generic views in a list format. It appears that newforms includes an
> > "errors" property, while oldforms errors can be accessed using
> > "error_dict." At the same time, I'd like to highlight fields with
> > errors using a custom style, but don't see how to pass a style to form
> > fields when used with generic views. [Does that make sense? Basically
> > I'd like to show an error list and mark fields with a red border when
> > there are errors, instead of listing error messages next to each
> > individual form element.]FYI, this is usually how I do it::
>
> <div class="form-row {% if form.errors%}error{% endif %}">
> {{ form.field }}
> </div>
>
> Then I can use a CSS rule like::
>
> div.error input { ... }
>
> To stype fields with errors.
>
> Sensemakemuch?
>
> Jacob
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