On Mar 27, 11:39 pm, "SmileyChris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 28, 9:03 am, "vfoley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I rewrote the forms portion of an application by using newforms. It's > > pretty nice, however there is something extremely annoying: newforms > > automatically adds a colon after labels (hopefully, my formatting is > > correct): > > This is the way that it has been decided to handle the labels in the > "lazy" methods. You aren't forced to use these methods. > > > P.S: This code is from 0.96, I haven't checked the Subversion tree. > > You won't see any difference, except that I have a ticket which will > only add the colon if there is no other punctuation to be added soon. > Hrm... I guess a ' ' could be added to my check for punctuation, in > which case it would leave the colon off if you ended in a space. Meh, > maybe that's a bit to "magic".
I think that this is a very bad solution. If the framework does something small magically, like adding a colon, there has to be a way to remove it without a *big* change like, for example, writing a custom template, referencing every form-field by itself, just to remove a colon. Also, there simply are languages where this punctuation doesn't make sense. Adding it automatically then telling international users that they have to write a lot more code, because english developers wanted to save one character is bad, I think. Imho, adding even more magic to make it go away, makes even less sense. Not to mention that there are a lot of layout choices that would make this colon superfluous. What's wrong with name = forms.CharField(label='Your name:')? I'd definitely go for removing this altogether before it's to late. Best regards from Germany, Jonas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
