On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Mark Anderson<nosrednak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted a field that would render in a rich text editor and store the data > in a TextField so I created a field type of HtmlField and custom HtmlWidge. > It works but I was wondering is anyone would be willing to give me feedback > on best practices etc, This is my first attempt at subclassing and any > points on would be great. I would like modelform to set the class to rte > and adjust rows/cols without me having to specify a widget. > > Thank you, > Mark > > class HtmlWidget(Textarea): > def __init__(self, attrs=None): > super(HtmlWidget, self).__init__(attrs) > > def render(self, name, value, attrs=None): > if value is None: value = '' > value = smart_unicode(value) > > return mark_safe(\ > u'<textarea name="%s" rows="12" cols="86" class="rte">%s</textarea>' > % \ > (name, escape(value))) > > class HtmlField(models.TextField): > > def get_internal_type(self): > return "HtmlField" > > def formfield(self, **kwargs): > kwargs['widget'] = HtmlWidget > return super(HtmlField, self).formfield(**kwargs) > > def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): > super(HtmlField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) > > > > >
The biggest thing is there is no need to rewrite the __init__ method if you aren't changing anything in there. Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero "Code can always be simpler than you think, but never as simple as you want" -- Me --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
