Searchable dropdown from models

[ah]

 Hi,

I am trying to create a searchable dropdown list  based on Django's model. I have a model M that has 6 objects [apple,orange,carrot,banana,kiwi,peach].

I want to create a view that will have a search box like a html datalist. when user types in "app" -- apple should show in dropbox list. then as user clicks on apple, the form should send id of object apple to the view.

I am using forms.py with

forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=M.objects.all()

which gives me a dropdown list. But i am unable to implement a search box.

Not much documentation is found online about this issue. Is there a better approach?

Thanks

[Mark Phillips]

If I understand your question, there are many different django projects that offer a solution to "autocomplete" in a form. 

https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/auto-complete/

Or, you can roll your own with the addition of some Javascript. Autocomplete is not a "built-in" function withing the django framework.

Hope this helps!

Mark

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