How much customization can you do with djangoforms.ModelForm?

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Published on 2010-03-18T02:53:45Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 3:01 UTC
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I've just started playing with The Django Form Validation Framework on Google App Engine (from google.appengine.ext.db import djangoforms) and I got stuck googling how to customize forms using it. I was wondering whether the following are possible using the package:

  • Add help texts beside/below input/select fields and textareas (e.g. "This field is required", "Example: qwerty123")
  • Add/modify attributes for the input/select fields and textareas (e.g. adding the following attributes: class, id, name, maxlength, minlength, etc.)
  • Add custom validations like checking whether a particular field should be unique or checking a value against a regular expression
  • Modify the error messages
  • Add another column to the table generated by the form

Also note that djangoforms.ModelForm is different from django.forms.Form.

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