Crispy forms not showing bootstrap and save/submit button

Taufiq Rahman

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Jul 13, 2017, 8:26:50 AM7/13/17

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Hey guys. I'm having trouble with Crispy forms with my models. The form shows up plain without the bootstrap and there seems to be no save button which i need to save data to my model. I have tried many ways and tutorials but have failed. Any help would be highly appreciated!

forms.py

from django import forms
from crispy_forms.helper import FormHelper
from .models import Plot


class PlotForm(forms.ModelForm):
    helper = FormHelper()
    helper.form_tag = False
    helper.form_method = 'POST'

    class Meta:
        model = Plot
        fields = '__all__'

the html:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Plot form</title>
</head>
<body>
    {% load crispy_forms_tags %}

    {% block content %}
       {% crispy form %}
    {% endblock %}
</body>
</html>

views.py

def plot_form(request):
    return render(request, 'plot_form.html', {'form': PlotForm()})

JHeasly

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Jul 13, 2017, 1:36:35 PM7/13/17

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Hello Taufiq —

Have you tried using the "instance level helper"?
See http://django-crispy-forms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/crispy_tag_forms.html#crispy-tag-with-forms
From the docs link above:

from crispy_forms.helper import FormHelper

class ExampleForm(forms.Form):
    [...]
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(ExampleForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.helper = FormHelper()

Hope this helps,
John

JHeasly

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Jul 13, 2017, 1:42:46 PM7/13/17

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Also, do you have any FormActions defined? That's where the Bootstrap button comes from:
http://django-crispy-forms.readthedocs.io/en/latest/layouts.html#bootstrap-layout-objects

Gabriel - Iulian Dumbrava

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Jul 26, 2017, 12:05:49 PM7/26/17

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Maybe it's because you have instructed crispy to not generate the form tag and you have not added it yourself in the HTML code.

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