Django TextField and CharField is stripping spaces and blank lines

Question

I just researched my \"bug\" and it turned out to be a new feature in Django 1.9 that CharFields strip spaces by default : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/forms/fi

Answer 1

If you are looking for a text/char field and do not want it to strip white spaces you can set strip=False in the constructor method of a form and then use the form in the admin

class YourForm(forms.ModelForm):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(YourForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['myfield'].strip = False

    class Meta:
        model = YourModel
        fields = "__all__"

You can then use this form in the admin by specifying form=YourForm in the admin.py file.