Using fields

Inside a form or list view, fields widgets are the way to present and edit data from model fields.

View fields have a few attributes available to them. Most of these attribute values have defaults that are taken from the model definition, but these can be overridden in the view.

Here is a quick reference for the common field attributes:

• name is the field name in the model and identifies the field that's being rendered by this element.
• string is the label text to be used. It overrides the model definition.
• help provides some tooltip help text that's shown when the mouse is hovered over the field.
• placeholder provides suggestion text to be displayed inside the field.
• widget sets a specific widget to be used to render the field. The available widgets will be discussed later in this section.
• options is a JSON data structure that's used to pass additional options to the widget. The values to use depend on the widget being used...