#5986: Easy way to customize ordering of fields on forms that use inheritance
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Reporter: emes | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Forms | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: field order weight | Triage Stage: Accepted
form newforms | Needs documentation: 0
Has patch: 1 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Needs tests: 0 | UI/UX: 0
Easy pickings: 0 |
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Comment (by alasdairnicol):
Replying to [comment:27 loic]:
> Can't say I'm convinced with this ticket, IMO ordering fields belongs in
the templates.
I used `self.field.keyOrder` in previous versions of Django, and would
find an official API useful. If you render the form in the template with
`{{ form }}` or `{{ form.ul }}`, then it's much easier to change the field
order in the form than the template.
The
[https://github.com/django/django/blob/1.7/django/contrib/auth/forms.py#L338
PasswordChangeForm] in the contrib.auth app changes the field order by
changing base_fields. I think it's much better to change it there than to
tell users to put 'old password' before 'new password' in their template.
It would be even better if we used a public API to change the field order.
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