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15728	1.3 release notes should mention snafu regarding model form help_text formatting	David Chandek-Stark	nobody	"The documentation and source code release of the (good) change in which model forms render help_text strings wrapped in <span class=""helptext""></span> elements is rather a mess.  Ticket #8426 notes that the change was made ""hopefully for real this time"" in r13522.  However, Django 1.2.5 (r15473) does *not* include this patch.  Ticket #15204 fixing the documentation was closed (ready for checkin) nearly 2 months ago, but the docs (as of Thu Mar 31 11:00:00 EDT 2011) at http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#help-text still show the wrong information.

I think it would be good to add a section to the 1.3 release notes (or perhaps a separate blog post) clarifying the situation.  This was an important (if small) change in that I for one had taken care to work around the lack of a <span> wrapper in model form rendering by including the element directly in model field help_text, and am happy to know that that poor hack is no longer necessary.

Thanks for the consideration."	Bug	closed	Documentation	1.3	Normal	wontfix		David Chandek-Stark	Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0