I just started to use django. I came across forms and I need to know which one is the better way to validate a forms. Would it be using django forms or should we use javascript or some client side scripting language to do it?
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I just started to use django. I came across forms and I need to know which one is the better way to validate a forms. Would it be using django forms or should we use javascript or some client side scripting language to do it?
You should ALWAYS validate your form on the server side, client side validation is but a convenience for the user only.
That being said, Django forms has a variable form.errors which shows if certain form fields were incorrect.
{{ form.name_of_field.errors }} can give you each individual error of each field that’s incorrectly filled out. See more here:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/