ModelForm to html?

[Max B]

Hey all,
I was wondering is anyone had seen any code that takes a ModelForm
object and can product a generic div structure in html? It would make
styling everything in CSS much easier. I attempted this once a while
ago and got lost in model introspection, I might have another go
taking a different approach now I've learnt a bit more.

Thanks, Max

[Stuart Cox]

Hi Max,

There are already form.as_p(), form.as_ul() and form.as_table() quick methods which will give various HTML representations of your form, but no - there isn't a "standard" div-based equivalent of these. There have been a number of requests to include a form.as_div() method in the core, but these have been rejected because the core devs would rather encourage all HTML to be defined in templates.

There are a few snippets of people defining custom as_div() methods - e.g. here - but that's one person's idea of how a form should be marked up. There isn't a one-size-fits-all, so I'd say you're probably better off defining the markup yourself in a template and populating it with the form's data/fields/values in the right places.

I wouldn't really recommend using the existing as_X() methods for anything other than debugging / rough prototyping, i.e. before you write the bulk of your CSS.

Stuart

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[Cameron Maske]

Hi Max, 

Maybe django crispy forms would work for you? You define the forms template/layout structure in the form class. You can easily wrap fields in divs.  I have found it a lot more manageable then custom templates.  

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[Max B]

django crispy forms look like exactly what I'm looking for, I did
write a custom as_div function but apparently the django developers
don't want to include any more html in the code base.

Thanks guys.