I have received a few recommendation to use django-crispy-forms for creating forms in Django.
I have been looking for a couple of hours into the documentation and can't figure out a way how to spread the form fields over two columns.
Looking at this example here
helper = FormHelper()
helper.form_class = 'form-horizontal'
helper.layout = Layout(
Field('text_input', css_class='input-xlarge'),
Field('textarea', rows="3", css_class='input-xlarge'),
'radio_buttons',
...
)
I can see how the sequence of appearance can be setup. But the layout is still no different then a plain {{ form.as_p }}. I hope I am missing here something otherwise there is little use in using this add-on?
Make sure you have bootstrap css files included, the application added to INSTALLED_APPS.
Then you have to include django-crispy-forms tags doing {% load crispy_forms_tags %} in your template and finally do {% crispy form %} as in the example. All that is shown in the example you linked. This should produce a horizontal form.
Nothing close to as_p, this is a customizable layout, no need to write templates, which is very error prone. These slides might help you.
I've only used django-crispy-forms briefly, and I didn't use it with a form helper. The below is written using mako-templates, but you should be able to easily enough transpose that to django templating.
<form class="form-horizontal">
<fieldset>
%if form.non_field_errors():
<div class='alert alert-error'>${form.non_field_errors()}</div>
%endif
${form.as_crispy}
<div class="form-actions">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" id="some-id">
Find
</button>
<button type="reset" class="btn" id="clear-filter">
Clear
</button>
</div>
</fieldset>
</form>
That rendered the form using fieldsets which is pretty much the default way to render forms with twitter-bootstrap. Only use helpers (I think..) if the default rendering is not working for you. I don't have
