I suppose I want to know if there is anyway to customize the field output at runtime to add properties like class, disabled etc...
Would rather not use javascript too ..... On Jan 16, 1:53 pm, sico <[email protected]> wrote: > doh! its one thing being stupid... its another being stupid in front > of a big crowd of people! > > if my field is readonly... it probably doesn't need a dropdown list > does it?? > > would still be nice to set date field text box class to vDateField to > get nice pop-up thingy! > > On Jan 16, 1:38 pm, sico <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I've inherited a django app - running on 0.96. So far, the people > > before me have not created any views, and have just used the built-in > > admin app to modify everything. > > > I want to create a view to control adding/editing records for a > > specific model. > > > #So, I create form from the model like: > > > if add == True: > > myObj = "" > > myForm = form_for_model (MyModel) > > else: > > myObj = MyModel.objects.get(pk=myId) > > myForm = form_for_instance(myObj) > > > form = myForm() # this got me at first!! > > > # Then I pass this form object to my template using render_to_response > > > return render_to_response('mytemplate.html', > > {'myId':myId, > > 'myForm':form, > > }, > > context_instance=RequestContext(request)) > > > all good so far... > > > then, in my template... I thought about using > > > myForm.as_table > > > but... I want some fields to be disabled if you're editing the record > > - still want them displayed, just not editable... > > > so I tried to display the fields all separately, > > > form.fieldname > > > that will let me display all the other fields, but to make my field > > readonly I tried putting it in directly... <input type=...... had > > to pass in the model object as well to get the data, but the big > > kicker is the field is a lookup.... to a really big table.... > > > surely I'm trying to do this the hard way!!! > > > Is there a way to display a form field and specify it to be read- > > only ??? > > > Also, would be nice to be able to add class="vDateField" to my > > datefields so it has the nice pop-up like the admin form.... > > > thanks in advance!! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
