Codemy Django Simple Blog Series 05

Youtube 37 Video Course

Style Django Forms With Bootstrap

Length 15:45

So my plan is to watch the video and take notes - not code but flow, bash instructions, etc. Then go back through the same video and write the code.

In add_post.html we've got {{ form.as_p }}. That means that every field in our form is surrounded by p tags.
You can also do {{ form.as_ul }} which puts in an unordered list and every field has a dot in front of it
And {{ form.as_table }}

So we have to create a Django form to do this. - Create new file ablog/theblog/forms.py

from django import forms
# Need to import our model.
from .models import Post
# ModelForm lets us use fields from our model.
class PostForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Post
        fields = ('title', 'title_tag', 'author', 'body')
        # Create widgets dictionary
        widgets = {
            # Change the attributes of the TextInput fields. form-control is a bootstrap class
            'title': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'form-control'}),
            'title_tag': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'form-control'}),
            'author': forms.Select(attrs={'class': 'form-control'}),
            'body': forms.Textarea(attrs={'class': 'form-control'}),
        }

Have to surround the django form in add_post.html in a div with the class='form-group'
In views.py we now have to import the form we just created. from .forms import PostForm
In views.py in class AddPostView, after model=Post, add form_class = PostForm and comment out or delete fields = __all__ because we designated which fields we wanted in PostForm
Could add other stuff in our PostForm - e.g. to add a placeholder to the title field just add more stuff to the appropriate dictionary:
```
            'title': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'form-control', 'placeholder': 'Blog Post Title Goes Here'}), 
```