CSS in form select widget

[Larry Martell]

I have a form where I need to display 2 fields in one select box, with
one field left justified and one field right justified.

Here is the model:

class Group(models.Model):
    ordering = ['order',]

    GROUP_BY_CHOICES = (
        ("Target", "Target"),
        ("Recipe", "Recipe"),
        ("PPL", "PPL"),
        ("Lot", "Lot"),
    )

    name = models.CharField(max_length=25, unique=True)
    order = models.IntegerField(default=0)
    prefixes = models.TextField()
    group_by = models.CharField(max_length=25,
choices=GROUP_BY_CHOICES, default="Target", null=True)

    def __unicode__(self):
        from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
        import re

        b = '%-08s %s' % (self.name, self.group_by)
        return mark_safe(re.sub('\s', '&'+'nbsp;', b))


Here is the form widget:

class GroupModelChoiceField(forms.ModelChoiceField):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
        super(GroupModelChoiceField, self).__init__(
            Group.objects.all(), required=False, empty_label="",
            **kwargs)

I tried to create the justification by adding spaces, but since the
font is not monospaced, that doesn't work (the client doesn't want a
monospaced font anyway).

Then I tried returning some embedded CSS like this:

        return mark_safe('<div style="float: left">%s</div><div
style="float: right">%s</div>' % (self.name, self.group_by))

But all the HTML gets srtipped out and I end out with just the 2
fields running together. Is there some way to achieve this?

Also, the select box is not wide enough to hold the 2 fields, so the
second one is getting truncated on the right. How can I make it
longer?

And, finally, in my admin page for this model:

class GroupAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    radio_fields = {"group_by": admin.HORIZONTAL}
    list_display = ('name', 'order', 'prefixes', 'group_by')
admin.site.register(Group, GroupAdmin)

It is not sorting by the order column, even though I have:

    ordering = ['order',]

in the model definition. I thought that was all that was needed to
specify a sort order. What am I missing here?

TIA!
-larry

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