Tag "css-class"

Dynamically add css-classes to formfields

This example assumes you have a form and want to highlight one of two fields by setting <class="highlight"> in the html dynamically. This is an alternative to <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/forms/widgets/#customizing-widget-instances>, but now you're not limited to assigning the class to the fields html-output, instead you can also assign it to a div around the field like done here. After assigning a css-attribute to a field, we access the css via a templatefilter *{{ field|css }}* that looks up *field.form.fields[field.name].css* and not simply *field.css*, since the latter would try to access a non-existing css-attribute on a BoundField-instance EDIT: The templatefilter is unnecessary. There is a much easier way, since the original field itself is an attribute of the BoundField named 'field'. So in the template, we can access the css via {{ field.field.css }}. Thanks to Tom Evans for pointing me at this.