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Michael Dinder
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Michael Dinder works as a senior backend developer at Cart, Inc. Michael has helped to develop projects for large enterprises such as PayPal and other companies such as Corcoran Pacific Properties, and countless more either directly or indirectly. He has been programming for more than 15 years with a number of different languages and frameworks, with a focus on Python/Django for the past 5+ years.
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Rendering forms in templates

Django offers five main ways to easily and quickly render a form object onto a page. The first three are to render a form using a paragraph, table, or list structure. The other two include the traditional way of rendering a form, which is based on the template in the django.forms.templates.django.forms library called default.html, and then a way to render your own template. New to Django 4.0 is the template_name option on all form classes. This option allows you to point to a template file where you can structure your own HTML formatting.

Follow these steps to render your form objects:

  1. Copy the base_template_1.html file that was created in Chapter 4, URLs, Views, and Templates, into your /becoming_a_django_entdev/chapter_5/templates/chapter_5/base/ folder. Copy all related partial template files that are added as {% include %} statements into that file as well.
  2. That base_template_1.html file will be repurposed as the base template for this...
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Michael Dinder works as a senior backend developer at Cart, Inc. Michael has helped to develop projects for large enterprises such as PayPal and other companies such as Corcoran Pacific Properties, and countless more either directly or indirectly. He has been programming for more than 15 years with a number of different languages and frameworks, with a focus on Python/Django for the past 5+ years.
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