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

Try using this:

# fields.py
from django.db.models import TextField


class NonStrippingTextField(TextField):
    """A TextField that does not strip whitespace at the beginning/end of
    it's value.  Might be important for markup/code."""

    def formfield(self, **kwargs):
        kwargs['strip'] = False
        return super(NonStrippingTextField, self).formfield(**kwargs)

And in your model:

class MyModel(models.Model):
    # ...
    my_field = NonStrippingTextField()