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03/31/07 20:25:01 (1 year ago)
Author:
russellm
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Fixed #2841 -- Clarified documentation on procedure for field validation. Thanks, dave@avaragado.org.

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  • django/trunk/docs/forms.txt

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    520 After a form has been submitted, Django first checks to see that all the 
    521 required fields are present and non-empty. For each field that passes that 
    522 test *and if the form submission contained data* for that field, all the 
    523 validators for that field are called in turn. The emphasized portion in the 
     520After a form has been submitted, Django validates each field in turn. First,  
     521if the field is required, Django checks that it is present and non-empty. Then, 
     522if that test passes *and the form submission contained data* for that field, all 
     523the validators for that field are called in turn. The emphasized portion in the 
    524524last sentence is important: if a form field is not submitted (because it 
    525525contains no data -- which is normal HTML behavior), the validators are not