I'm new to Django, and making good progress rewriting a Struts-based website. (It started rotting because I found Struts so painful and non-intuitive. Django is so much easier.)
The major problems I'm running into have to do with HTML generation, first with error messages, and then with RadioSelect. In general, I don't like the, default, as_p or as_ul options. I'm also finding that the documentation on how to change the HTML is kind of thin, so I'm reading code and guessing. For errors, I ended up doing something like this: form.errors # Force creation of _errors errors = form._errors.items() I now have a list of unformatted items which I can format anyway I want. I'm running into a similar problem with RadioSelect. I found widgets.RadioFieldRender, but I can't extend it (it isn't exported). So I have a question and a suggestion. Question: How do I control HTML generation, ideally at field- or widget-level? I feel I must be overlooking something easy. Suggestion: Instead of hardwiring formatting into Django, allow attributes to specify formatting. E.g., here is the minimal HTML for radio buttons for selecting gender: <input type="radio" name="gender" value="m">Male <input type="radio" name="gender" value="f">Female I might want to generate some HTML before the first input, after the last, and between adjacent inputs. RadioFieldRenderer does this in a hardcoded way. How about providing, through the API, widget attributes such as 'before', 'after', and 'in_between'? These could default to what RadioFieldRendered does, but I could also substitute my own. Jack Orenstein --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---