Thank you doug for your feedbacks. I am happy to see that I am not the
first one facing this dilemma.
I try to go the {{form.fieldname}} way but my issue with this approach
was that since my forms was dynamically built it was difficult for me
to find a a generic way to write my template to express all the cases.I think your advise of reading the newforms and the test suite is very good. I have already tryied but I guess I haven't spent enough time on it yet. Maybe be I should not consider the newfroms library as a silverbullet but as a very convenient tool weel suited for simple forms. At least until I drastically increase my skill on how to use them Thank you On Jul 28, 1:20 am, Doug B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So my question is am I missing something or I was just expecting too > > much from the newforms? > > I had similar problems initially, and after hundreds of forms built I > still get annoyed every time I have to build a newforms form. On the > other hand, I can't really think of a better way to do it either (and > I've tried, oh how I tried). Building a form from just a raw template > IS easier, but rendering is only part of newforms... its the > consistent way of doing validation in the view (or writing the > template) without knowing about the form details that are important as > far as I'm concerned. > > The best advice I can give is to take a few minutes and read all of > the newforms code (especially the fields and widgets), and the > regression tests. It's extremely well commented, and will probably > help a lot. It did for me. > > http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/tests/regressionte... > > >My last question is would it be absurd to have a form field called > >TemplateField to which we can give a template string that will be > >dynamically inserted and substituted in the template? > > You could do that if you want to. Override one of that > form.as_table,as_ul, etc methods to render from a template attribute. > I'm not sure why you would though since it's pretty easy to do > {{ form.fieldname }} in your view template if you don't like the > default newforms layouts. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
