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django-crispy-forms bootstrap form example
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django import forms
from crispy_forms.helper import FormHelper
from crispy_forms.layout import Layout, Div, Submit, HTML, Button, Row, Field
from crispy_forms.bootstrap import AppendedText, PrependedText, FormActions
class MessageForm(forms.Form):
text_input = forms.CharField()
textarea = forms.CharField(
widget = forms.Textarea(),
)
radio_buttons = forms.ChoiceField(
choices = (
('option_one', "Option one is this and that be sure to include why it's great"),
('option_two', "Option two can is something else and selecting it will deselect option one")
),
widget = forms.RadioSelect,
initial = 'option_two',
)
checkboxes = forms.MultipleChoiceField(
choices = (
('option_one', "Option one is this and that be sure to include why it's great"),
('option_two', 'Option two can also be checked and included in form results'),
('option_three', 'Option three can yes, you guessed it also be checked and included in form results')
),
initial = 'option_one',
widget = forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple,
help_text = "<strong>Note:</strong> Labels surround all the options for much larger click areas and a more usable form.",
)
appended_text = forms.CharField(
help_text = "Here's more help text"
)
prepended_text = forms.CharField()
prepended_text_two = forms.CharField()
multicolon_select = forms.MultipleChoiceField(
choices = (('1', '1'), ('2', '2'), ('3', '3'), ('4', '4'), ('5', '5')),
)
# Uni-form
helper = FormHelper()
helper.form_class = 'form-horizontal'
helper.layout = Layout(
Field('text_input', css_class='input-xlarge'),
Field('textarea', rows="3", css_class='input-xlarge'),
'radio_buttons',
Field('checkboxes', style="background: #FAFAFA; padding: 10px;"),
AppendedText('appended_text', '.00'),
PrependedText('prepended_text', '<input type="checkbox" checked="checked" value="" id="" name="">', active=True),
PrependedText('prepended_text_two', '@'),
'multicolon_select',
FormActions(
Submit('save_changes', 'Save changes', css_class="btn-primary"),
Submit('cancel', 'Cancel'),
)
)
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% load crispy_forms_tags %}
{% block content %}
{% crispy form %}
{% endblock %}
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from django.shortcuts import render
from forms import MessageForm
def index(request):
# This view is missing all form handling logic for simplicity of the example
return render(request, 'index.html', {'form': MessageForm()})
@nbensa
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nbensa commented Mar 23, 2013

Hello.

Is it possible to use Button('cancel', 'Cancel') in FormActions to redirect to another view?

Without crispy, I use this in my templates:

<a class="btn" href="{{ object.get_absolute_url }}">Cancel</a>

But crispy's Button() generates a <input type="button" class="btn" value="Cancel"> which in my case doesn't nothing*. An Submit() generates a <input type="submit"..... which then generate errors in the form because the form goes to the view, the view tries to validate the form, etc., etc. (I'm using class based views).

Is the only way using HTML()?

Thanks!

  • Of course, maybe I'm doing something wrong :-/

@rh0dium
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rh0dium commented May 27, 2013

This is what I ended up doing.

        cancel_url = reverse('<object>:list')
        if self.instance:
            cancel_url = reverse('<object>:view', kwargs={'pk': self.instance.id})

        self.helper.layout = Layout(
            ButtonHolder(
                Submit('submit', 'Submit'),
                Button('cancel', 'Cancel', onclick='window.location.href="{}"'.format(cancel_url))
            )
        )

@torabisu
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Button('cancel', 'Cancel', onclick='history.go(-1);')

@spapas
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spapas commented Jun 17, 2013

I instead use this to create a cancel button:

HTML("a class='btn' href='{% url \"cancel_url\" %}'>Cancel")

@ldgarcia
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ldgarcia commented Aug 6, 2013

Is there a way to leave CSS formatting on the template side?

@flyingfoxlee
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what is in your base.html?

@flyingfoxlee
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I use crispy_forms with html5-boilerplate and bootstrap3, got the result as follow
screen

The right and left side of the rendered page exceeds the boundary of the browser.
Zoom in or zoom out won't help.
Also, it seems that it treat the web browser as a mobile one. In fact, it's on laptop.

@flyingfoxlee
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I get this right by wrapping the form in a container div. Thank you for this great app.

@adrienbrunet
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@flyingfoxlee Have you tried replace container by container-fluid?

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ghost commented Apr 30, 2014

This is cool, thanks so much!

@zinonas
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zinonas commented Aug 27, 2014

Which is that 'base.html'?

What is its path?

Thank you in advance!

@daniel-milinski
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Dosen't work

@daniel-milinski
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init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'instance' ERROR

@bedros
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bedros commented Jul 25, 2015

thanks for the example, it helped me solve some issues with my form, but I still got couple more.

is there a way to use chosen with AppendedText like

This works

AppendedText('user','a link to add a new user')

but this one does not work

AppendedText(Field('user', css_class='chosen'),'a link to add a new user')

the form displays chosen JS autofill but it does not show the link

@sureshvv
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  1. What is the role of helper.class = 'form-horizontal'?
  2. My form does not appear like a 2 column table, as in this example. What am I missing?

@wtfrank
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wtfrank commented Jun 11, 2016

@sureshvv form-horizontal is from bootstrap I think

@saiftheboss7
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ImportError: No module named 'forms'

What to do?

@mihirsevak
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How can i display radio buttons horizontally instead of vertically?? Same for the checkboxes. Can you show syntax for that in helper class?

Thanks.

@mihirsevak
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Guys, I tried using inline as explained in documentation but it had no effect on the outcome. Below is my code. can someone help me identify what I am doing wrong?? Thanks.

helper = FormHelper()
helper.form_class = 'form-horizontal'                                                                                              
helper.layout = Layout(
    Field('text_input', css_class='input-xlarge'),
    Field('textarea', rows="3", css_class='input-xlarge'),                                                                         
    'radio_buttons',
    InlineRadios('radio_buttons'),
    Field('checkboxes', style="background: #FAFAFA; padding: 10px;"),                                                              
    InlineCheckboxes('checkboxes'),
    AppendedText('appended_text', '.00'),
    PrependedText('prepended_text', '<input type="checkbox" checked="checked" value="" id="" name="">', active=True),              
    PrependedText('prepended_text_two', '@'),                                                                                      
    'multicolon_select',                                                                                                           
    FormActions(
        Submit('save_changes', 'Save changes', css_class="btn-primary"),                                                           
        Submit('cancel', 'Cancel'),                                                                                                
    )                                                                                                                              
)  

@Nabot
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Nabot commented May 27, 2017

Hi.. Nice tutorial. Is there a way to output the submitted results on the same page when one clicks save changes, in form of a table?

Thank you in advance.

@Kiodaddy
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OP you saved my life by sharing this codes.

@GraniteConsultingReviews

Thanks for this code its working perfectly

@arindam31
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What if we are using a modelForm ? Like this below:

class BlogPostForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = models.Post
        fields = ['title', 'text', 'tags', 'author', 'slug']

@farhatnawaz
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@arindam31 I have the same question. i have got the form fields but can't seem to find a way to put text in front of the fields, for instance "Name:" in front of the text field to fill in the name. Any help guys?

@aichaoxy
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aichaoxy commented Jan 9, 2020

What is in the base.html, please ?

@rachuri333
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rachuri333 commented Apr 24, 2020

@arindam31 I also had the same question, how can i work on it? can any any one help us

@arindam31
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arindam31 commented Apr 25, 2020

@rachuri333 I don't remember what I was trying to do back then . But this is what my form looks like.


class BlogPostForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = models.Post
        fields = ['title', 'text', 'tags', 'author', 'slug']
    helper = FormHelper()
    helper.form_class = 'form-group'
    helper.layout = Layout(
        Field('title', css_class='form-control mt-2 mb-3'),
        Field('text', rows="3", css_class='form-control mb-3'),
        Field('author', css_class='form-control mb-3'),
        Field('tags', css_class='form-control mb-3'),
        Field('slug', css_class='form-control'),
    )

You can browse my project to find the complete code.: https://github.com/arindam31/Django_TravelBlog

@Dsr2004
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Dsr2004 commented Feb 23, 2022

how can i put a bootstrap switch?

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