Question

What’s the Django way of presenting a formset horizontally, i.e. one row per form? The as_table method generates multiple forms vertically (with the labels). I need the form fields in table rows (one row per form) and the labels should be on top. I don’t see anything out of the box. Is this discouraged for some reason?

I should clarify that I actually want a table, because of a UI table widget I’ll be using. And that table should have the labels in the .

So my desired structure is:

<table>
  <thead>
     <tr><th>column1</th><th>column2</th></tr>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr><td>form1.value1</td><td>form1.value2</td></tr>
...
  </tbody>
</table>

Answer 1

You might want to try something like this http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1442/

{{ formset.non_form_errors.as_ul }}
<table id="formset" class="form">
{% for form in formset.forms %}
  {% if forloop.first %}
  <thead><tr>
    {% for field in form.visible_fields %}
    <th>{{ field.label|capfirst }}</th>
    {% endfor %}
  </tr></thead>
  {% endif %}
  <tr class="{% cycle row1 row2 %}">
  {% for field in form.visible_fields %}
    <td>
    {# Include the hidden fields in the form #}
    {% if forloop.first %}
      {% for hidden in form.hidden_fields %}
      {{ hidden }}
      {% endfor %}
    {% endif %}
      {{ field.errors.as_ul }}
      {{ field }}
    </td>
  {% endfor %}
  </tr>
{% endfor %}
</table>