Thanks Russell, that works well.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Russell Keith-Magee <
russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> The best bet would be to write a custom widget, and override the render()
> method. render() takes the name of the widget, the value to render, and a
> dictionary of attr values. In your subclass, you can override this method
> to inject the additional attributes based on the provided value - something
> like:
>
> class MyWidget(TextInput):
>     def render(self, name, value, attrs=None):
>         if value == SPECIAL VALUE:
>             attrs['class'] = 'class1 class2'
>         return super(MyWidget, self).render(name, value, attrs)
>
> This is an oversimplification - there's a few extra edge cases you'll need
> to account for - if attrs is none, or if 'class' already exists - but the
> idea should hopefully make sense.
>
> Yours,
> Russ Magee %-)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Michael <michael.palumb...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The ``attrs`` attribute of a widget allows to define the html attributes.
>> For example, setting it to ``widget.attrs['class'] = 'class1 class2'`` will
>> add ``class="class1 class2"`` on the rendered widget.
>>
>> However, how can I set them based on the data? I display an update form
>> and I'd like to change the CSS class based on the data that is going to be
>> displayed when the form is rendered.
>>
>> Where could I check for the data in order to change the ``attrs``
>> property of the widget before it is rendered?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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