How does Django Know the Order to Render Form Fields?

Question

If I have a Django form such as:

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    subject = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
    message = forms.CharField()
    sender = fo         


        

Answer 1

I've used this to move fields about:

def move_field_before(frm, field_name, before_name):
    fld = frm.fields.pop(field_name)
    pos = frm.fields.keys().index(before_name)
    frm.fields.insert(pos, field_name, fld)

This works in 1.5 and I'm reasonably sure it still works in more recent versions.