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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Specifying labels


By default, the labels on Django's auto-generated form HTML are created by replacing underscores with spaces and capitalizing the first letter-so the label for the email field is "Email". (Sound familiar? It's the same simple algorithm that Django's models use to calculate default verbose_name values for fields. We covered this in Chapter 4, Models). But, as with Django's models, we can customize the label for a given field. Just use label, like so:

class ContactForm(forms.Form): 
    subject = forms.CharField(max_length=100) 
    email = forms.EmailField(required=False,
        label='Your e-mail address') 
    message = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea)