how to add tag instead of

Question

forms.py

class TypeSelectionForm(forms.Form):
    checkbox_field = forms.MultipleChoiceField(widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple(), label=\"\", required=Fals         


        

Answer 1

This is similar to @bhappy 's solution. The overall solution is to define a custom as_div method and use it as a template filter in your templates. Have a look at this django snippets post: Custom Form Example: Forms for Bootstrap Html - CSS Toolkit

Answer 2

From the documentation:

New in Django 1.4.

For more granular control over the generated markup, you can loop over the radio buttons in the template. Assuming a form myform with a field beatles that uses a RadioSelect as its widget:

{% for radio in myform.beatles %}
<div class="myradio">
    {{ radio }}
</div>
{% endfor %}

In your template, you should have this:

{% for radio in types.checkbox_field %}
   <input style="margin: 8px -3px;float: left;" type="button" class="delete_types" id="delete_name"/>{{ radio }}
{% endfor %}

You should also use a ModelMultipleChoiceField:

class TypeSelectionForm(forms.Form):
    checkbox_field = forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField(label="",
                                                    queryset=Types.objects.none(),
                                                    required=False)

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        qs = kwargs.pop('queryset')
        super(TypeSelectionForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['checkbox_field'].queryset = qs

Initiate it like this from your view:

def types(method):
    """"""""""""
    qs = Types.objects.filter(parent_type_id=type_id,is_active=True)
    types = TypeSelectionForm(queryset=qs)
    return render(request,'types.html',{'types':'types'})

Answer 3

Widgets take an attrs attribute, which should add the attribute to each input. Try this:

checkbox_field = forms.MultipleChoiceField(widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple(attrs={'class': 'my-image-class', }), label="", required=False)

UPDATE:

So it looks like the granular approach mentioned above only works for radio button widgets. But what you want is actually very simple. Just output your checkboxes as normal:

{% for field in types.checkbox_field %}                                 
 {{field}}
{% endfor %}

This will output your list of checkboxes as you need. Then just use a little CSS to style the background image of each list item:

form ul li {
background:url("<my-image>") no-repeat center;
width:20px;
height:20px;

}

UPDATE

If you want to render the checkboxes differently, you need a custom widget class, as that's the widgets job. Something like this will get you going. I'd personally use the attrs option on the widget to add in a class, but I've hard coded it here to show you that what you ask is possible, just not pretty:

class CheckboxDivSelectMultiple(CheckboxSelectMultiple):
'''renders the checkboxes as divs with a hard coded class'''

def render(self, name, value, attrs=None, choices=()):
    if value is None: value = []
    has_id = attrs and 'id' in attrs
    final_attrs = self.build_attrs(attrs, name=name)
    output = [u'<div>']
    # Normalize to strings
    str_values = set([force_unicode(v) for v in value])
    for i, (option_value, option_label) in enumerate(chain(self.choices, choices)):
        # If an ID attribute was given, add a numeric index as a suffix,
        # so that the checkboxes don't all have the same ID attribute.
        if has_id:
            final_attrs = dict(final_attrs, id='%s_%s' % (attrs['id'], i))
            label_for = u' for="%s"' % final_attrs['id']
        else:
            label_for = ''

        cb = CheckboxInput(final_attrs, check_test=lambda value: value in str_values)
        option_value = force_unicode(option_value)
        rendered_cb = cb.render(name, option_value)
        option_label = conditional_escape(force_unicode(option_label))
        output.append(u'<div class="%s"><label%s>%s %s</label></div>' % ('new-class', label_for, rendered_cb, option_label))
    output.append(u'</div>')
    return mark_safe(u'\n'.join(output))

use it in your form:

checkbox_field = forms.MultipleChoiceField(widget=forms.CheckboxDivSelectMultiple(), label="", required=False)

Answer 4

Why not use the power of Django template tags ?

from django import template
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
register = template.Library()


@register.filter("as_div")
def as_div(form):
    form_as_div = form.as_ul().replace("<ul", "<div").replace("</ul", "</div")
    form_as_div = form_as_div.replace("<li", "<div").replace("</li", "</div")
    return mark_safe(form_as_div)

Put that in a template tag and then do this simply in your template

{% load ad_div %}

{# some Code #}

{{ form|as_div }}

{# some other code #} 

============================

Other approach (Better Cleaner)

Another approach would be to extend django forms model

as follows

from django.forms.forms import BaseForm

Class AsDiv(BaseForm):

def as_div(self):
        return self._html_output(
            normal_row = u'<div%(html_class_attr)s>%(errors)s%(label)s %(field)s%(help_text)s</div>',
            error_row = u'<div>%s</div>',
            row_ender = '</div>',
            help_text_html = u' <span class="helptext">%s</span>',
            errors_on_separate_row = False)

Then you could just do this is your template

{{ form.as_div }}