Checkbox (label, field) ordering

[EoghanM]

It is currently very difficult to reorder the default layout of fields:

<label for="x" ...>My Label:</label> <input id="x".../>

For checkboxes, this should be either:

<input id="x".../> <label for="x"...>My Label</label>

or

<label><input.../> My Label</label>

At the moment, in a template there's no way of knowing if a field is a BooleanField (in order to special case the html), and I don't know how I'd edit widgets etc. to override the current layout.

This has been touched on as a sore point elsewhere:

​http://www.mail-archive.com/django-developers@googlegroups.com/msg21887.html

​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/572263/

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Where would be the best place to apply a patch for this?

• At the form level: as a new argument to forms/forms.py:_html_output, called 'checkbox_row' which for e.g. table rows would look like:

  u'<tr><td colspan="2">%(field)s%(label)s%(help_text)s%(errors)s</td></tr>'
  

• At the field level: as a new boolean function 'is_checkbox'?
• Both of the above?

[Russell Keith-Magee]

I acknowledge the problem, but I'm not sure what the solution should be.

[Paul Oswald]

You might want to look into this Django library which allows you to override the html of any form field: ​https://github.com/brutasse/django-floppyforms

More generally, it might make sense to incorporate that library into Django itself to allow users to apply their own markup preferences. It uses the django templating system to define the html and substitutes the field values in. The application creates html5-typed input elements but it could easily be used to output html in the current html 4 style by default. Can someone on the core team can make a call as to if this approach is acceptable?

[Aymeric Augustin]

Change UI/UX from NULL to False.

[Aymeric Augustin]

Change Easy pickings from NULL to False.

[Aymeric Augustin]

I'm going to close this for the same reasons as #13401.

The long term solution is indeed something akin to floppyforms, but it hasn't been integrated yet due to performance concerns.