Horizontal (per-row) forms in a Django formset

Question

What\'s the Django way of presenting a formset horizontally, i.e. one row per form? The as_table method generates multiple forms vertically (with the labels). I need the fo

Answer 1

I suggest using form.as_ul and styling it with your CSS to make it all on one row. You can do that with ul li { display: inline; } or of course, substitute a class or ID if you don't want to affect all ULs in that manner.

Here's the relevant section of the Django docs: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/#displaying-a-form-using-a-template

Edit: To address your need for a table, you'd like want to do something like this... edited some more.

It's difficult to put all of these forms in a table, and still have valid HTML. A form element can surround a table, or be inside a ... though this will likely still work.

  
   {% for field in form %}
     {{ field.label }}
   {% endfor %}
  



 
  

    {% for field in form %}
      
       

        
{{ field.label }}
        
{{ field }}
       
      
    {% endfor %}