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Chonker
Chonker

Reputation: 41

Multiple checkboxes validation rules, only works when every checkbox selected

I have a template which goes through a queryset and creates a checkbox for each item which seems to be a validation problem. I can only submit this when I check every checkbox and I just can't seem to figure out what is wrong.

my template:

<form method="POST">
   {% csrf_token %}
   <fieldset>
      {% for choice in choices %}
      {{ choice.description }}
      <input type="checkbox" value="{{choice.section}}" name="sections" required="">
      {% endfor %}
      <button type="submit">Submit</button>
   </fieldset>
</form>

my forms.py

class AddSectionForm(forms.Form):
    sections = forms.MultipleChoiceField(
        required=False, widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple())

edit

Urghh, I'm an idiot, it's the required="" in the html checkbox object!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 432

Answers (2)

willeM_ Van Onsem
willeM_ Van Onsem

Reputation: 476649

Your checkboxes should not have required="", otherwise it is required to check these. Furthermore it is probably more elegant to use a ModelMultipleChoiceField:

class AddSectionForm(forms.Form):
    sections = forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField(
        queryset=Section.objects.all(),
        required=True,
        widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple()
    )

Upvotes: 0

Chonker
Chonker

Reputation: 41

Thanks Willem, you got it! Also needed to change the checkbox values for the primary keys.

forms.py:

class AddSectionForm(forms.Form):
sections = forms.MultipleChoiceField(
    required=True, widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple(),
    choices=Section.objects.all().values_list())

template:

<form method="POST">
{% csrf_token %}
<fieldset>
{% for choice in choices %}
{{ choice.description }}
<input type="checkbox" value="{{choice.pk}}" name="sections">
{% endfor %}
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</fieldset>

Upvotes: 1

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