Django forms are easily rendered as tables, paragraphs, and unordered lists. However, elegantly rendered div based forms is something you have to do by hand. The purpose of this application is to provide a simple tag and/or filter that lets you quickly render forms in a div format.

Uni-form has been selected as the base model for the design of the forms.

1. Install as uni_form in your Django apps directory.

2. Copy the site_media files in uni_form to your project site_media directory.

   • uni-form-generic.css
   • uni-form.css
   • uni-form.jquery.js

3. Add 'uni_form' to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py.

1. Add {% load uni_form %} to the template that calls your form.

2. Append your form call with the as_uni_form filter:

   {{ my_form|as_uni_form }}

3. Add the class of 'uniForm' to your form. Example:

   <form action="" method="post" class="uniForm">

4. Refresh and enjoy!

1. In your views.py add the following after field definitions:

   from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
   
   from uni_form.helpers import FormHelper, Submit, Reset
   from my_project.forms.MyForm
   
   def my_view(request):
   
       # Create the form
       form = MyForm() 
   
       # create a formHelper
       helper = FormHelper()
   
       # Add in a class and id
       helper.form_id = 'this-form-rocks'
       helper.form_class = 'search'
   
       # add in a submit and reset button
       submit = Submit('search','search this site')
       helper.add_input(submit)
       reset = Reset('reset','reset button')                
       helper.add_input(reset)
   
       # create the response dictionary
       response_dictionary = {'form':form, 'helper': helper}
   
       return render_to_response('my_template.html', response_dictionary)

2. In your template do the following:

   {% load uni_form %}
   
   {% uni_form form helper %}

1. In your form class add the following after field definitions:

   from uni_form.helpers import FormHelper, Submit, Reset
   
   class MyForm(forms.Form):
       title = forms.CharField(label=_("Title"), max_length=30, widget=forms.TextInput())
   
       # Attach a formHelper to your forms class.
       helper = FormHelper()
   
       # Add in a class and id
       helper.form_id = 'this-form-rocks'
       helper.form_class = 'search'
   
       # add in a submit and reset button
       submit = Submit('search','search this site')
       helper.add_input(submit)
       reset = Reset('reset','reset button')                
       helper.add_input(reset)

2. In your template do the following:

   {% load uni_form %}
   {% with form.helper as helper %}
       {% uni_form form helper %}
   {% endwith %}

1. In your form class add the following after field definitions:

   from uni_form.helpers import FormHelper, Submit
   
   class MyForm(forms.Form):
       title = forms.CharField(label=_("Title"), max_length=30, widget=forms.TextInput())
   
       # Attach a formHelper to your forms class.
       helper = FormHelper()
   
       # Change the form and method
       helper.form_action = 'my-url-name-defined-in-url-conf'
       helper.form_method = 'GET' # Only GET and POST are legal
   
       # add in a submit and reset button
       submit = Submit('search','search this site')
       helper.add_input(submit)

2. In your template do the following:

   {% load uni_form %}
   {% with form.helper as helper %}
       {% uni_form form helper %}
   {% endwith %}

Uniform helpers can use layout objects. A layout can consist of fieldsets, rows, columns, HTML and fields. A simple Example:

from django import forms

from uni_form.helpers import FormHelper, Submit, Reset
from uni_form.helpers import Layout, Fieldset, Row, HTML

class LayoutTestForm(forms.Form):

    is_company = forms.CharField(label="company", required=False, widget=forms.CheckboxInput())    
    email = forms.CharField(label="email", max_length=30, required=True, widget=forms.TextInput())        
    password1 = forms.CharField(label="password", max_length=30, required=True, widget=forms.PasswordInput())
    password2 = forms.CharField(label="re-enter password", max_length=30, required=True, widget=forms.PasswordInput())    
    first_name = forms.CharField(label="first name", max_length=30, required=True, widget=forms.TextInput())        
    last_name = forms.CharField(label="last name", max_length=30, required=True, widget=forms.TextInput())            

    # Attach a formHelper to your forms class.
    helper = FormHelper()

    # Create some HTML that you want in the page.
    # Yes, in real life your CSS would be cached, but this is just a simple example.
    style = """
    <style>
        .formRow {
            color: red;
        }
    </style>

    """
    # create the layout object
    layout = Layout(
                    # first fieldset shows the company
                    Fieldset('', 'is_company'),

                    # second fieldset shows the contact info
                    Fieldset('Contact details',
                            HTML(style),
                            'email',
                            Row('password1','password2'),
                            'first_name',
                            'last_name',
                             )
                    )

    helper.add_layout(layout)

    submit = Submit('add','Add this contact')
    helper.add_input(submit)

Then, just like in the previous example, add the following to your template:

{% load uni_form %}
{% with form.helper as helper %}
    {% uni_form form helper %}
{% endwith %}

This allows you to group fields in fieldsets, or rows or columns or add HTML between fields etc.