Regarding Django forms

[Nishant Sagar]

Hey forks, 

I’m in little dilemma regarding Django forms. I'm working on a project as a backend guy who doesn't know much about CSS and JavaScript so a frontend guy delivered me a form template designed using CSS, however, Django documentation suggests that it's good practice to use Django forms.

So how feasible do you think it is for a frontend guy to learn Django widgets from scratch to implement the same thing he can easily do from CSS and JS. As a newbie backend guy, it's not easy for me either to learn frontend tech to implement the same thing in so little time.

So I tried implementing the form without using Django forms but I find it hard to deal with files as there is no documentation I can look up to.

So can we add these to the documentation or it is still advisable to use Django forms?

Thanks and regards,

Nishant 

[siyamak abasnezhad]

You can use widget Tweeks or crispy 

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[Nishant Sagar]

That's the whole point. I've attached my form.html file, do you think it's a generous idea to design the whole form page using widgets if I already have the form template ready?

<div class="main">

<div class="container-form">

<div class="signup-content">

<div class="signup-img">

<img src="{% static 'img/form-img-2.jpg' %}" alt="">

</div>

<div class="signup-form">

<form action="form" method="POST" class="register-form" id="register-form">

{% csrf_token %}

<h2>Registration form</h2>

<div class="form-row">

<div class="form-group">

<label for="name">Name of Homeowner :</label>

<input type="text" name="name" id="name" placeholder="Name" required />

</div>

<div class="form-group">

<label for="age">Roof Age :</label>

<input type="number" name="roof_age" id="age" placeholder="Roof Age" required />

</div>

</div>

<div class="form-group">

<label for="email">Email ID :</label>

<input type="email" name="email" id="email" placeholder="Email" required />

</div>

<div class="form-group">

<label for="phone">Phone :</label>

<input type="number" name="phone" id="phone" placeholder="Phone" required />

</div>

<div class="form-group">

<label for="address">Full Home Address :</label>

<input type="text" name="address" id="address" placeholder="Address" required />

</div>

<div class="form-group">

<label for="bill">Average Monthly Electric Bill Costs :</label>

<input type="number" name="monthly_bill" id="bill" placeholder="$" required />

</div>

<div class="form-radio">

<label for="HOA" class="radio-label">Do you have HOA?</label>

<div class="form-radio-item">

<input type="radio" name="HOA" id="HOA_YES" >

<label for="HOA_YES">Yes</label>

<span class="check"></span>

</div>

<div class="form-radio-item">

<input type="radio" name="HOA" id="HOA_NO" >

<label for="HOA_NO">No</label>

<span class="check"></span>

</div>

</div>

<div class="form-radio">

<label for="battery" class="radio-label">Would you also need a battery? </label>

<div class="form-radio-item">

<input type="radio" name="battery" id="Battery_YES" >

<label for="Battery_YES">Yes</label>

<span class="check"></span>

</div>

<div class="form-radio-item">

<input type="radio" name="battery" id="Battery_NO">

<label for="Battery_NO">No</label>

<span class="check"></span>

</div>

</div>

<div class="form-radio">

<label for="foundation" class="radio-label">Is your home on concrete foundation?</label>

<div class="form-radio-item">

<input type="radio" name="foundation" id="foundation_YES" >

<label for="foundation_YES">Yes</label>

<span class="check"></span>

</div>

<div class="form-radio-item">

<input type="radio" name="foundation" id="foundation_NO">

<label for="foundation_NO">No</label>

<span class="check"></span>

</div>

</div>

<div class="form-group">

<label for="course">Roof Type :</label>

<div class="form-select">

<select name="roof_type" id="course">

<option value="">Select here</option>

<option value="Shingle">Comp Shingle</option>

<option value="Concrete">Concrete</option>

<option value="Metal">Metal</option>

<option value="Spanish">Spanish</option>

<option value="Clay">Clay</option>

</select>

<span class="select-icon"><i class="zmdi zmdi-chevron-down"></i></span>

</div>

</div>

<div class="form-group">

<label for="availability">Your Availability :</label>

<input type="datetime-local" name="availability" id="availability" placeholder="Select Time"

required />

</div>

<div class="form-group">

<label for="uplaod">Upload your bill :</label>

<input type="file" name="bill" id="uplaod" required />

</div>

<div class="form-submit">

<input type="reset" value="Reset All" class="submit" name="reset" id="reset" />

<input type="submit" value="Submit Form" class="submit" name="submit" id="submit" />

</div>

</form>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

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[Nishant Sagar]

And one more thing, why is radio btn returning 'on' even if it is not selected?

[Ken Whitesell]

Absolutely.

If you're using Django, then *use* Django. Take advantage of all the facilities it provides you.

Yes, it's a little more work on your part to convert this to a Form-based template. But what it provides you are all the facilities available within Django forms for data validation and conversions.

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[Nishant Sagar]

That's what I wanted to know

Thank you sir

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[Kiet Lam]

Why don't you also use the context and pass in an array to be rendered at the htm?

There are too many repeating and hard code elements that could have been done with a single foreach statement.

On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 2:27 AM Kiet Lam <kmla...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Nishant,

Yes. I would stick to using Django forms. It has a lot of inbuilt security protection that is easily implemented at the front end like CSRF.

Cheers,

Kiet

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[Kiet Lam]

Hi Nishant,

Yes. I would stick to using Django forms. It has a lot of inbuilt security protection that is easily implemented at the front end like CSRF.

Cheers,

Kiet

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 3:56 PM Nishant Sagar <nishan...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Adam Johnson]

Hi!

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