Sorry for the bump, but does no one have an explanation for this weird
behavior? The question comes up regularly when I show the admin
interface to a client.
On 23 Nov., 16:57, Benjamin Wohlwend <piquad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> currently, when a form in the admin has collapsed fieldsets, those
> fieldsets are expanded on submit. As I find this rather distracting
> and couldn't find an explanation why this should be desired behavior,
> I suspected that this is probably a hard to find bug somewhere in
> between CSS, HTML and Django's JavaScript code.
>
> When I finally took a look at the code, I was quite surprised that
> this isn't a bug, but a feature:
>
> > if (collapsed_seen) {
> > // Expand all collapsed fieldsets when form is submitted.
> > addEvent(findForm(document.getElementsByTagName('fieldset')[0]),
> > 'submit', function() { CollapsedFieldsets.uncollapse_all(); });
> > }
>
> This code is in the admin since revision 96 [1]. But why? From a
> technical view, both the client and the server couldn't care less if
> the form fields are visible or not, they process them all the same.
> Was it UI-motivated?
>
> I, for one, find it quite disturbing that input fields appear all over
> the place when I click submit, just to vanish moments later to be
> replaced by a new page :)
>
> Regards,
> Benjamin
>
> [1]http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/media/js/admin/Col...
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