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I'm trying to modify the Django Admin interface. I need a custom type of textbox that does some pre/post processing on the text. If I understand correctly, a custom widget is the way to go about this.
Any good tutorials on how to write custom widgets for Django?
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To write custom Django widget we use forms. Widget class Which is base class for all django Widgets. If we use bootstrap framework in our project then we may need to add some bootstrap classes to HTML form fields and we should follow some HTML structure in order to generate desired design.
The widget in Django will handle the rendering of the HTML elements and extract data from a POST/GET dictionary that corresponds to the same widget. Whenever we specify a field on a Django form, Django uses some default widget appropriate to the data type to be displayed.
A widget is Django's representation of an HTML input element. The widget handles the rendering of the HTML, and the extraction of data from a GET/POST dictionary that corresponds to the widget. The HTML generated by the built-in widgets uses HTML5 syntax, targeting <!
So, we have to just design the HTML with css, and use it in Django by just replacing the input tag with render_field and form. field_name with {% %} at the end and design it with our choice.
I found this: http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2008/03/28/overriding-a-single-field-in-the-django-admin-using-newforms-admin
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