Replace dots by dashes or hyphens from form fields id's of related objects

[David Elias]

Dots in html id's gives an error in CSS when trying to assign styles.

maybe this will do:

def get_id(self):
    "Returns the HTML 'id' attribute for this form field."
    return FORM_FIELD_ID_PREFIX + self.field_name.replace('.', '_')

[david@…]

while newforms are under development here is a patch :)

[Gary Wilson <gary.wilson@…>]

Not sure it would be worth committing changes to oldforms at this point in time. Is this an issue in newforms too?

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

Should be fixed, but only in newforms.

[anonymous]

All right - i will test with newforms.

[chrj]

I'm having some trouble decoding the ticket title "...form fields id's of related objects". Using the normal recipe for creating a newform, fields are created as properties and thus does can not contain dots (syntactically incorrect).

However if you manually alter the fields / base_fields properties of the form, you could make a field with a dot in the name.

Is it Django's problem, if you manually tries to break things?

[durdinator]

Not an issue with newforms; wont fix oldforms.