Utilise help_text for TabularInline in Admin

[glenjamin]

When using TabularInline in the automatic admin interface the help_text for fields is not displayed anywhere.

I suggest that the information could be displayed as a tooltip on the column heading, like so:

<th {% if forloop.first %}colspan="2"{% endif %}>{{ field.label|capfirst|escape }}</th>

becomes

<th {% if forloop.first %}colspan="2"{% endif %}>
  {{ field.label|capfirst|escape }}
  {% if field.help_text %}<abbr class="help-text-tooltip" title="{{ field.help_text|striptags }}">?</abbr>{% endif %}
</th>

and then in the CSS:

.help-text-tooltip { cursor: help; }

[anonymous]

I would prefer this:

         <th {% if forloop.first %}colspan="2"{% endif %}>
           <span class="inline-field-label">{{ field.label|capfirst }}</span>
           {% if field.help_text %}<abbr class="help" title="{{ field.help_text|striptags }}">?</abbr>{% endif %}
         </th>

and

.inline-group .tabular .inline-field-label {
    float: left;
}

.inline-group .tabular abbr.help {
    cursor: help;
    float: right;
}

[Ramiro Morales]

#6077 proposed the same with a slightly different UI.

[Julien Phalip]

I'd like to see this in 1.4.

[jedie]

Whats about simply add the help_text to td title ?

e.g:

django/contrib/admin/templates/admin/edit_inline/tabular.html
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
{% for fieldset in inline_admin_form %}
{% for line in fieldset %}
{% for field in line %}
- <td class="{{ field.field.name }}">
+ <td class="{{ field.field.name }}" title="{{ field.field.help_text }}">
{% if field.is_readonly %}
<p>{{ field.contents }}</p>
{% else %}

[Julien Phalip]

The attached patch contains a binary image I've created to symbolise the help text (instead of using a '?' character). I've also added some tests.

[Julien Phalip]

By the way, you will need to use 'git apply' to create the binary image from the patch.

[Jannis Leidel]

I don't know the small icon looks a little odd (too dark), maybe we could ask our Design BDFL to create a better one.

[Jannis Leidel]

Screenshot: ​http://jzdz.me/2c2l1U2I1M0E0G0J2A3N

[Idan Gazit]

Small icon is indeed too dark. icon-unknown.gif would be a fine solution here, even if it is used for other purposes elsewhere.

[Jannis Leidel]

In [16622]:

Fixed #8190 -- Added support for a field's help text to the tabular admin inline. Thanks, Julien Phalip and Idan Gazit.

[Jacob]

Milestone 1.4 deleted