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Sirion
Sirion

Reputation: 927

Set name attribute in Django generated select field

I'm trying to write forms using Django but I don't manage to set the name of Select field.

class MyForm(forms.Form):
    successor = forms.ChoiceField(widget=forms.Select(
        attrs = {'name': 'to_player', 'onclick':'this.form.submit();'}
        )
    )

Gives this output:

<label for="id_successor">Successor:</label>
<select id="id_successor" name="successor" onclick="this.form.submit();"></select>

but should be name="to_player" not name="successor". Why?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1873

Answers (2)

Ra&#250;l EL
Ra&#250;l EL

Reputation: 1256

I resolved this problem using javascript.

You can add id attribute in your form:

class MyForm(forms.Form):
    successor = forms.ChoiceField(widget=forms.Select(attrs = {'id':'id_player', 'name': 'to_player','onclick':'this.form.submit();'} ))

And at the end of the template you can put this javascript code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
...
</head>

<body>
...
...
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){ 
document.getElementById('id_player').name = 'to_player';
});
</script>

</body>
</html>

In this way I solved this problem., and works 100% !

Have a nice day !

Upvotes: 2

Joseph
Joseph

Reputation: 13188

I believe the name attribute can't be overwritten using attrs because of the way the widget is rendered. However, if you check out this answer to a similar question, you will find a wrapper function that will allow you to specify your own name attribute.

Upvotes: 1

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