django-crispy-forms v0.8.0 Release Notes

  • You can read on how to use new features included in this version at: http://tothinkornottothink.com/post/7339670508/new-kung-fu-in-django-uni-form-0-8-0

    • Elevated Miguel Araujo to project lead!
    • Added a forloop simulator for formset forms rendering.
    • ButtonHolder Layout object added for holding HTML and buttons: Submit, Reset, Button.
    • Turned BaseInput inherited objects like: Submit, Reset, Hidden and Button into Layout objects.
    • Fixed a bug with rendered_fields when no fields where in the Layout.
    • Fieldset legends are now templates full context aware.
    • Based on @issackelly's and @johnthedebs's work a template called betterform has been added for supporting @carljm's form-utils BetterForms.
    • FormHelper method get_attr has been renamed to get_attributes
    • uni_form_tags has been split into two different files: uni_form_tags and uni_form_filters.
    • Removing i18n tags from the templates, as they are not necessary anymore.
    • Removed all the internationalized hardcoded text, in favor of template variables: form_error_title and formset_error_title, both can be set as helper's attributes.
    • as_uni_errors filter can now render formset's non_form_errors uni-form way.
    • Moved {% uni_form_setup %} tag to use STATIC_URL instead of MEDIA_URL
    • Added the possibility to specify a helper for formsets too.
    • Renamed media directory to static, to be compatible with Django 1.3 staticfiles.
    • Added a form_style FormHelper attribute for setting global style of a form: inline or default.
    • Turning HTML into a full context aware django template field, having access to the whole context of the template in which the form is rendered.
    • Turning Layout and Fieldset fields attributes into lists, so that they can be changed dynamically.
    • Changing formHints from paragraphs to divs, so ul or ol can be placed within.
    • Removing slugify filter from form ids, so they can be set as user's preferences.
    • Added CSS class 'asteriskField' for asterisks. Added CSS class 'fieldRequired' for required input labels.
    • UNIFORM_FAIL_SILENTLY variable setting has been added for making django-uni-form log errors and fail silently, based on Adam Cupiał's work.
    • Several bug fixes in MultiField.
    • Added unicode support for layout field names and improved error handling.
    • Refactored testing system and raised testing coverage.
    • Clean part of the code base and comments. All old CSRF code for supporting old versions of Django has been removed.
    • Refactored BasicNode for better readability and reducing lines of code.
    • Added formsets support based on Victor Nagy's (nagyv) and Antti Kaihola's (akahiola) work.
    • Bug fix in {% uni_form %} tag that didn't work without a helper and it was meant to be optional.
    • CSS classes can be set in Submit buttons.
    • Thanks to J. Javier Maestro (jjmaestro) now we can set ids and classes for Fieldset, MultiField, Row and Column.
    • Thanks to Richard Marko (sorki) changed CSS class of PasswordInput widget.
    • Removing Toggle class as it wasn't being used anywhere.
    • Moved BaseInput to helpers and removed util.py file.
    • Removed {% uni_form_jquery %} tag
    • Removed namify function from tags, as It wasn't being used anywhere.

    • Improved internal documentation

    • form methods generated by FormHelper are in lowercase (http://github.com/pydanny/django-uni-form/issues#issue/20)

    • Thanks to Nagy Viktor added form_tag attribute to FormHelper. Now you can use the uni_form tag without the leading and trailing form tags.

    • Thanks for Alison Rowland for giving django-uni-form sphinx docs

    • Incorporated uni-form 1.4 by Dragan Babic

    • Provide better adherence to uni-form specification of error messages

    • mirumee provided some great work for making FormHelper more subclassable.

    • django-uni-form 0.8 and higher lays out the HTML for the uni_form tag differently. The errorMsg div is now outside the fieldset as it should be.

    • Thanks to Casper S. Jensen django-uni-form now supports 1.2 style csrf_token.

    • csrf_token does not break earlier versions of Django. This will change when no version of django does not support csrf_token.

    • Thanks to j0hnsmith changed {{ error }} to {{ error|safe }} so that html (eg links) can be added to error messages.

    • Thanks to j0hnsmith changed {{ field.label }} to {{ field.label|safe }} so that html (eg links) can be added to field labels

    • Kudos to Stepan Rakhimov fixed an admin datetime issue.

    • Thanks to patrys (Patryk Zawadzki) FormHelper class is now easily subclass-able.

    • Sorki (Richard Marko) made it so things work better in direct_to_template.