Django-Admin: CharField as TextArea

Question

I have

class Cab(models.Model):
    name  = models.CharField( max_length=20 )
    descr = models.CharField( max_length=2000 )

class Cab_Admin(admin.ModelAd         


        

Answer 1

If you are trying to change the Textarea on admin.py, this is the solution that worked for me:

from django import forms
from django.contrib import admin
from django.db import models
from django.forms import TextInput, Textarea

from books.models import Book

class BookForm(forms.ModelForm):
    description = forms.CharField( widget=forms.Textarea(attrs={'rows': 5, 'cols': 100}))
    class Meta:
        model = Book

class BookAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    form = BookForm

admin.site.register(Book, BookAdmin)

If you are using a MySQL DB, your column length will usually be autoset to 250 characters, so you will want to run an ALTER TABLE to change the length in you MySQL DB, so that you can take advantage of the new larger Textarea that you have in you Admin Django site.