Layout of widgets in admin form

[Vikas Rawal]

I am new to django. I am trying to develop an application where I need to work with the admin interface. The usual admin interface (for example in the poll app of django tutorial) lays out the widgets vertically. How do I change that? If I want to put two or three widgets side by side, customise the width of each widget, etc, what should I do? 

Vikas

[Melvyn Sopacua]

On 24-8-2012 12:15, Vikas Rawal wrote:
> I am new to django. I am trying to develop an application where I need to
> work with the admin interface. The usual admin interface (for example in
> the poll app of django tutorial) lays out the widgets vertically. How do I
> change that?

<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial02/#customize-the-admin-form>

See the fieldsets part.

> If I want to put two or three widgets side by side, customise
> the width of each widget, etc, what should I do?

Same thing, and set the HTML classes to something that gives them your
width.
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Melvyn Sopacua

[Vikas Rawal]

>
> <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/tutorial02/#customize-the-admin-form>
>
> See the fieldsets part.

The examples shown for fieldsets seem to divide the fields into
different groups. But in all the examples, fields still appear, within
each group, one after another, vertically.

Vikas

[Melvyn Sopacua]

Ah, right it's not properly covered in the tutorial. Within the fields
member of the dictionary you can group them. Details are here:
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.fields>

Short version:
fieldsets = (
(None, {
'fields': ( (question, pub_date), ),
}
),
#...
)
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Melvyn Sopacua

[Vikas Rawal]

Thanks. Worked perfectly.

Vikas