Question

I have a page that lets the viewer edit objects. The page displays a formset with one form for each object, plus one empty form should they wish to create an object, and I would like there to be a checkbox marked “Delete” under each pre-existing object (which is to say, NOT the last one because it’s the extra empty form).

I added the following code to my template:

{% for form in formset %}
{{ form.as_p }}
    {% if forloop.last %}
    {% else %}
    Delete?<input type="checkbox" name="delete" value="delete"><br>
    {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

This displays the checkbox, but I don’t know how to get the data about whether or not that box was checked when I am processing the form.

For background, I’m creating the formset with modelformset_factory(MyClass, extra=1) and I’m not just using can_delete because I don’t want a delete checkbox to appear under my last and empty form, so I’d prefer to simply add an extra input directly in the template, if that’s possible.

How would I get the data about whether or not that box has been checked?

Answer 1

As it is form, so you have got method that process it? So you can just get flag value of it with request.POST.getlist(‘delete’)