I’ve just starting fooling around with Django (a Python web framework), and was looking to produce a form. Bear in mind that Django doesn’t really do MVC, but follows the philosophy – separation of logic, representation and appearance:
class BookForm(forms.Form):
title = forms.CharField()
def BookView(request):
form = BookForm()
return render_to_response('book.html', {'form': form})
With boot.html containing (amongst other things):
<form action="" method="get">
{{ form.as_table }}
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
Which is great! MVC, separation of data, presentation and business logic. Now, how do you get a CSS class onto that title field? CSS, being the way of separating out the presentation part of a HTML page from the data that’s embedded in it? As above, but chuck it in as such:
class BookForm(forms.Form):
title = forms.CharField(
widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'title-field'}))
<style>
.title-field input {background:#ccC68f;}
</style>
<form action="" method="get">
<table>
<tr><td class="title-field"> {{ form.title }} </td></tr>
</table>
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
I’m not sure what the answer is here. Anyone care to enlighten this noob? Bear in mind that there’s a thing to magically tie a model to a form meaning you don’t even need to specify the fields in both the form and model, which you can’t use if you start tossing styles into each field.
