Question

I’m trying to set up a ModelForm in Django that will use the django-chosen ChosenSelect widget for one of the fields. I have installed django-chosen and this is the code I have:

class TestForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Test
        widgets = {
            'field': chosenwidgets.ChosenSelect(),
        }

However, the specifying the widgets has no effect and the form is outputted the same regardless of whether I define it. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Are you including the form media in your template?

The example template below assumes that your base template has blocks extrastyle and extrahead where you include CSS and scripts respectively, and that you have included jquery 1.4+ in your base template.

# my_template.html
{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block extrastyle %}
{{ block.super }}
{{ form.media.css }}
{% endblock %}

{% block extrahead %}
{{ block.super }}
{{ form.media.js }}
{% endblock %}

{% block content %}
<form action="." method="post">
    <table>
    {{ form }}
    </table>  
    <p><input type="submit" value="Update" />
</form>  
{% endblock %}