"Overriding the default widgets" docs missing import statement

[Matthew Rowbottom]

Hi.

I'm new to django and am using the development version from SVN v1.2.0 beta.1 (rev 12909)

I am unsure of whether there is a problem in the code, docs or my own app. I'm providing this as a solution to a problem I faced, based on information found in the docs.

The first example given in the following section of the docs would not work for me...
​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/modelforms/#overriding-the-default-field-types-or-widgets

class AuthorForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Author
        fields = ['name', 'title', 'birth_date']
        widgets = {
            'name': Textarea(attrs={'cols': 80, 'rows': 20}),
        }

From reading through the docs, I presume that the only import required is:

from django.forms import ModelForm

When I attempted to run the development server, I receive the following error message:

NameError: name 'Textarea' is not defined

My solution was the following:

from django import forms

class AuthorForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Author
        fields = ['name', 'title', 'birth_date']
        widgets = {
            'name': forms.Textarea(attrs={'cols': 80, 'rows': 20}),
        }

In summary, I made the following changes:

Line 1 - from django import forms
Line 3 - class AuthorForm(forms.ModelForm):
Line 8 - 'name': forms.Textarea(...),

I hope this is of some help.

[Gabriel Hurley]

Yeah, there is a problem there. At no point on the page does it actually import TextArea. Your solution is one way to fix it, or simply changing it to from django.forms import ModelForm, TextArea would also work.

Trivial docs ticket to add to 1.2. I'll write up a patch a little later today.

[Gabriel Hurley]

Clarified example text (fixing a typo in the process), and added proper import statement to example.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

(In [13130]) Fixed #13269 -- Added clarifying import statement to widget override docs. Thanks to mattrowbum for the report, and Gabriel Hurley for the patch.

[Jacob]

Milestone 1.2 deleted