Sometimes, you have to take complete control of how your forms are shown. Learn how to use Django forms to get fine-tuned control of your forms in this video.
- [Instructor] In our last video, … we talked about how to change the outlook of forms via Sane, … you know, lay this out in paragraph tags … as an unordered list, … but you can go even more custom them that with your form. … So if you'd like to see how you can do that … instead of just having a regular old pizzaform here, … we can actually go field by field … and lay things out exactly how we would like. … So for instance, we could go here and say, … all right, we want to have pizzaform.topping1, … you just name whatever your field is … and then you can say that you want this to be, for instance, … the label_tag. … So we can go ahead and have that, … and maybe below this we'll just go ahead … and copy and paste that instead of having the label tag, … this is where we'd like to have the actual input. … So you just do pizzaform.topping1 … and that brings the actual field, … and then with this, … if you want to have an error on top of this, … then we're going to go ahead and paste here …
Author
Released
3/8/2019- Creating form fields
- Using submitted data
- Adding models
- Using the ModelForms class
- Working with widgets
- Accepting files and multiple forms on a page
- Customizing formsets
- Using local validation
- Delivering errors responsibly
- Customizing forms
- Styling with CSS
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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What you should know1m 5s
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Project walkthrough1m 51s
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1. Getting Started with Forms
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Starting a new project2m 26s
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Making forms from scratch5m 24s
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Form fields5m 22s
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Submitting forms4m 47s
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Django form class5m 15s
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Using submitted data5m 32s
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2. Working with Advanced Form Features
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Adding models5m 59s
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Model forms4m 1s
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Working with widgets5m 37s
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Advanced widgets4m 23s
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Forms and files4m 4s
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Formset views6m 34s
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Editing objects4m 40s
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Input confirmation4m 7s
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3. Customizing and Styling Form Appearance
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Server-based errors5m 10s
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Form rendering3m 49s
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Customizing forms4m 59s
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Spicing up forms with CSS6m 40s
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Homepage styling4m 7s
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Form styling6m 24s
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Conclusion
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Next steps1m 19s
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