[design-q] Please add newforms as_div() method for printing forms.

[brooks.travis@…]

In the hope of maintaining slightly greater semantic purity in the output forms, you may want to consider allowing priting of forms as <div>s in addition to <p>, <ul>, and <tr>.

[Jannis <jl@…>]

Additional as_div method in forms.py

[Jannis <jl@…>]

tests and docs for new as_div()

[Jannis <jl@…>]

revision of tests and docs for new as_div()

[James Bennett]

From the last couple times these sorts of things have been suggested (for example, with an as_dl method), it's been pointed out that these methods are meant to be quick conveniences; newforms will let you write your template any way you want, and the various as_* methods are meant to be few in number, with fine-grained control delegated to templates.

[Adrian Holovaty]

Closing as wontfix for the same reason pointed out in #3108.

[anonymous]

5 years have passed div's a heavily used for pages styling. Please, reconsider of fixing this.

[Carl Meyer]

Please don't reopen tickets closed wontfix by a core developer - if you want to discuss the issue, bring it up on the django-developers mailing list for discussion.

The prevalence (or not) of div-based layouts is irrelevant to the reasons given for closing this as wontfix. The "as_*" methods are a quick and inflexible development shortcut; if anything they should be phased out entirely in favor of template-based rendering, certainly not expanded.