5 Django packages that extend the functionality of forms or add new types of forms

  • Mar 20, 2022
Django-autocomplete-light/

Django-autocomplete-light - Python

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A fresh approach to autocomplete implementations, specially for Django. Status: v4 alpha, v3 stable, v2 & v1 deprecated.

Features

  • Python 2.7, 3.4, Django 2.0+ support (Django 1.11 (LTS), is supported until django-autocomplete-light-3.2.10),
  • Django (multiple) choice support,
  • Django (multiple) model choice support,
  • Django generic foreign key support (through django-querysetsequence),
  • Django generic many to many relation support (through django-generic-m2m and django-gm2m)
  • Multiple widget support: select2.js, easy to add more.
  • Creating choices that don't exist in the autocomplete,
  • Offering choices that depend on other fields in the form, in an elegant and innovative way,
  • Dynamic widget creation (ie. inlines), supports YOUR custom scripts too,
  • Provides a test API for your awesome autocompletes, to support YOUR custom use cases too,
  • A documented automatically tested example for each use case in test_project.
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Django-bootstrap-form/

Django-bootstrap-form - HTML

560

Twitter Bootstrap for Django Form

<form role="form">
    <legend>Form Title</legend>
    {% csrf_token %}
    {{ form|bootstrap }}
    <div class="form-group">
      <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>
    </div>
</form>

 

Django-bootstrap3/

Django-bootstrap3 - Python

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Bootstrap 3 integration with Django.

Example template

{% load bootstrap3 %}

{# Display a form #}

<form action="/url/to/submit/" method="post" class="form">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {% bootstrap_form form %}
    {% buttons %}
        <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>
    {% endbuttons %}
</form>
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Django-crispy-forms/

Django-crispy-forms - Python

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The best way to have DRY Django forms. The app provides a tag and filter that lets you quickly render forms in a div format while providing an enormous amount of capability to configure and control the rendered HTML.Django-crispy-forms/

 

Django-floppyforms/

Django-floppyforms - Python

802

Full control of form rendering in the templates.

# in your template configuration
TEMPLATES = [{
    ...,
    # inside the directories parameter
    'DIRS': [
        # include django's form templates
        os.path.join(
            os.path.dirname(django.__file__), "forms/templates/"
        ),
        ... # the rest of your template directories
}]