Re: Issue when rendering manually a form's HiddenInput

[durirompepc]

Yeah, I deleted the post cause I thinked the same yesterday. Sorry for the 
inconvenience.

El viernes, 7 de agosto de 2015, 13:07:49 (UTC+2), Tom Evans escribió:
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 6:55 PM,   
> wrote: 
> > So, I'm trying to use inputs with the hidden attr. I have my form class 
> > (IndexForm) that has this: 
> > field = HiddenInput() 
> > Then, I pass the instance of IndexForm (index_form) to the template, and 
> > manually render the field (index_form.field). It is alright, but then, 
> in 
> > the HTML, the render of the field is this... 
> >  
> > Why I'm seeing the str representation of the object, and not an HTML 
> hidden 
> > input? 
>
> Forms are collections of Field instances, but HiddenInput is a Widget. 
> You should be setting the widget attribute of one of the fields to be 
> a HiddenInput, not assigning a HiddenInput as a member of the form. 
>
> Cheers 
>
> Tom 
>

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Re: Issue when rendering manually a form's HiddenInput

['Tom Evans' via Django users]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 6:55 PM,   wrote:
> So, I'm trying to use inputs with the hidden attr. I have my form class
> (IndexForm) that has this:
> field = HiddenInput()
> Then, I pass the instance of IndexForm (index_form) to the template, and
> manually render the field (index_form.field). It is alright, but then, in
> the HTML, the render of the field is this...
> 
> Why I'm seeing the str representation of the object, and not an HTML hidden
> input?

Forms are collections of Field instances, but HiddenInput is a Widget.
You should be setting the widget attribute of one of the fields to be
a HiddenInput, not assigning a HiddenInput as a member of the form.

Cheers

Tom

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