On Sunday, 1 July 2012 23:25:32 UTC+1, Russ Abbott wrote: > > As a Django newbie I apologize if this is a trivial question. > > I'd like to use a form field as an element in a generated page but not as > part of a form. In particular, I'm generating a table, some of whose > elements are text and others of which I want to be drop-down lists. I > thought I might be able to use forms.ChoiceField to generate the drop-down > lists. > > When I write > > ... > choices = forms.ChoiceField([1, 2, 3]) # as a test case > ... > > I get a django.forms.fields.ChoiceField object. But when I include it as > an element of the table nothing appears. > > Is this a reasonable approach? (It seems very easy if it really could be > made to work.) If so, what should I do to get it to display as a drop-down > list? > > Thanks. >
You don't make it explicit, but I assume you're passing that 'choice' variable straight to the template, ie outside of a Form object? If so, that doesn't work. Form fields themselves don't render directly - they have to be included in a BoundField, which happens automatically when a form is initiated. You could try just declaring and instantiating a simple form containing just your fied. Alternatively, you could try skipping the field altogether and try instantiating the widget, form.Select, directly, and calling its `render` method (it takes name and value, but value can be an empty string). -- DR. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/Fj7Lafn2HOQJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
