Django Multiple Choice Field / Checkbox Select Multiple

Question

I have a Django application and want to display multiple choice checkboxes in a user\'s profile. They will then be able to select multiple items.

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Answer 1

The models.CharField is a CharField representation of one of the choices. What you want is a set of choices. This doesn't seem to be implemented in django (yet).

You could use a many to many field for it, but that has the disadvantage that the choices have to be put in a database. If you want to use hard coded choices, this is probably not what you want.

There is a django snippet at http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1200/ that does seem to solve your problem, by implementing a ModelField MultipleChoiceField.