Fixed minimal version, works with Django 1.7+, tested on Django 1.9. Add the following to your settings: AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = [ 'project.backends.UserModelEmailBackend', # Login w/ email 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend', # Login w/ username ]
You need jQuery and Bootstrap 2 and bootstrap-dropdown.js. Apart from that, this should be a perfect drop-in replacement for the normal select widget. A jQuery event callback maintains a hidden input field from the user's selection. Upon loading the page, the hidden input field is set. The SelectWidgetBootstrap also contains a <noscript> tag containing the normal forms.Select widget. Example usage: class MyForm(forms.Form): group = forms.ModelChoiceField(models.Group.objects.all(), widget=SelectWidgetBootstrap(), empty_label=_(u'(no group selected)'))