Django help_text
Solution 1
Putting {{ form.as_p }}
(or just {{ form }}
) in your template should display the help_text without additional code, provided that you have form
in your context (but I suppose you do if you get the field on your page).
Solution 2
Step 1. Read: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/forms/#looping-over-the-form-s-fields
Step 2. Customize. Here are the rules.
Within this loop, {{ field }} is an instance of BoundField. BoundField also has the following attributes, which can be useful in your templates:
{{ field.label }} The label of the field, e.g. E-mail address.
{{ field.label_tag }} The field's label wrapped in the appropriate HTML tag, e.g. E-mail address
{{ field.html_name }} The name of the field that will be used in the input element's name field. This takes the form prefix into account, if it has been set.
{{ field.help_text }} Any help text that has been associated with the field.
{{ field.errors }} Outputs a containing any validation errors corresponding to this field. You can customize the presentation of the errors with a {% for error in field.errors %} loop. In this case, each object in the loop is a simple string containing the error message.
Solution 3
I see something is missing in your snipped, if the ItemForm instance is passed in template as {{ form }} try
{{ form.alternative_id.help_text }}
.. as the docs says in the @S.Lott answer.
Shehzad009
Updated on June 04, 2022Comments
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Shehzad009 almost 2 years
I would like to put some help text in this form.
class ItemForm(forms.ModelForm): alternative_id = forms.CharField(max_length = 60, required = False, help_text = 'Valid wildcard search is in the format *XX, *XX*, XX*')
However it does not appear on the page. Is it because I may need a template tag somewhere?
EDIT: I have this written in my template.
<div id="location_header">Search for Items</div> <div id="form_container"> <form action="." method="post"> <fieldset class="model"> {{ form.as_p }} {{ alternative_id.help_text }} </fieldset> <div id="form_footer"> <input type="submit" value="Search" > </div> </form> </div>
Help text still does not appear. Is there a way to write a help text, while allowing django to generate a form?
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user1066101 over 13 years@Shehzad009: Your code looks nothing like the example in the Django documentation. Please read the supplied link.
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Shehzad009 over 13 yearsOf course, because by the looks of things, does not look like I can use form.as_p to generate the form.