id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	stage	has_patch	needs_docs	needs_tests	needs_better_patch	easy	ui_ux
9854	A more flexible help_text proposal	h3	nobody	"This is not really a bug, but rather a enhancement proposal for recurring annoyance I have with every django projects I work with (quite a lot).

Every time I have to theme a django generated form I end up having to override forms rendering methods in order to wrap the help text with a span.
Without that span, applying CSS styling is awkward, counter-productive and semantically questionable.

Example:

{{{

class SomeForm(forms.ModelForm):
     def as_ul(self):
        return self._html_output(u'<li>%(errors)s%(label)s %(field)s<span class=""help"">%(help_text)s</span></li>', u'<li>%s</li>', '</li>', u' %s', False)           


}}}

It's far from optimal, require too much code and make it quite hard to work with externals applications (svn).

So here's my proposal:

{{{

# settings.py 
FORM_HELP_TEXT_HTML = '<span class=""help"">%s</span>'

}}}

That way it makes it easy to apply it site-wide without having to modify every forms class of each applications.

I've included a patch, it's quite a minor tweak and the default form.py behavior is not changed at all.

Thanks for considering my proposal."		closed	Forms	1.0		duplicate	help_text		Unreviewed	1	0	0	0	0	0