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12359	db/models/fields/related.py hardcodes m2m help_text for select widget	Ole Laursen	nobody	"There's a bit of code in the many to many field definition that appends some help for the standard usability-troubled HTML select widget to the help_text:

{{{
  msg = ugettext_lazy('Hold down ""Control"", or ""Command"" on a Mac, to select more than one.')
  self.help_text = string_concat(self.help_text, ' ', msg)
}}}

This means that if you define a custom help_text, you have to take care to someone de-append the help_text when overwriting the widget for a form, e.g. when using the built-in {{{CheckboxSelectMultiple}}} widget instead of a plain select box.

Practical issues aside, it's also probably not a good idea to hardcode the help_text for a particular presentational widget in the db layer, had to grep the whole codebase to find it. :)

I suggest the text be moved to the {{{SelectMultiple}}} widget in the forms code."		closed	Uncategorized	1.1		duplicate			Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0