django-customselectwidget 0.1.1

Django Custom select widget

django-CustomSelectWidget

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This is a custom Select Widget for django forms and modelforms. This widget will enable you to have a select field in HTML that can take free text value along with a limited

select options. the selectable option can be selected by user or if need be, the user can type their own free text in the field. This widget works with django.forms.CharField.ChildProcessError

Supported Python versions: 3.4+

Supported Django versions: 2.0+

Installation

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Install with pip

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$ pip install django-CustomSelectWidget

Configure your models.py or forms.py

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from django.forms.models import ModelForm

from customselectwidget.customselectwidget import CustomSelectWidget

from django import forms



# ...





class MyModelForm(ModelForm):



    # .....

    my_field=forms.CharField(required=False,max_length=200, label='Please select your task')

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):

        _type_list = kwargs.pop('data_list', None)

        super(MyModelForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        # the "name" parameter will allow you to use the same widget more than once in the same

        # form, not setting this parameter differently will cuse all inputs display the

        # same list.

        self.fields['my_field'].widget = CustomSelectWidget(data_list=['option 1','option 2','option 3'], name='type-list')

In your settings.py

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INSTALLED_APPS = (

    'django.contrib.auth',

    'django.contrib.contenttypes',

    'django.contrib.sessions',

    'django.contrib.sites',

    'django.contrib.admin',



    #.....................#



    'customselectwidget',

)