#16922: Add a template-based form rendering system
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Reporter: carljm | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Forms | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: form-rendering | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 1
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by carljm):
Hi Tim, a few thoughts:
1. The code that was in that GSoC branch was eventually merged into
[https://github.com/gregmuellegger/django-floppyforms django-floppyforms]
and has seen updates there since, so I think it would be best to approach
this in terms of a new Django branch copying/merging the desired code from
floppyforms.
2. I think that #15667 (rendering widgets via templates) alone addresses
90+% of the issues people have with customizing markup in Django forms. I
think that ticket is much higher priority than this one, presuming the
performance issues can be addressed, or the performance cost is deemed
acceptable.
3. Once we have #15667, there are two additional steps that could be taken
to resolve this ticket: either a) a straightforward port of the existing
`.as_ul()` and `.as_p()` methods to render via an overridable template
instead of by constructing HTML in Python, or b) a full integration of the
extensively customizable form-layouts system that Gregor built for GSoC.
To be honest, I am not sure the latter needs to be in Django, I think it
works just fine as a third-party add-on (at least until/unless that third-
party add-on proves itself as a de facto necessity a la South, which I
don't think it has done yet). So I would be in favor of limiting the scope
of this ticket to (a), and only even worrying about that once #15667 is
fixed.
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