django-bigfoot - HTML building block for Django
Currently a work in progress. Please email us if you're intersted in using it.
django-bigfoot makes helps define HTML building blocks (e.g., forms, form fields, tables) that can be easily be combined and rendered into HTML.
What do I want that for?!
Let's say you want to display a formset as a table. You already have a defined style for your form fields that shows errors just like you want 'em. Well, with bigfoot, you define a template for your form field, a template for a form (probably just the form tag), and a template for a table. Then you do this:
def my_view(request):
formset = formset_factory(...)
bigfoot_form = Form(
Table(formset, {
'description': FormField(A(), 'description'),
'amount': FormField(A(), 'amount')
})
return render('template.html', {'elements': bigfoot_form})
Here's template.html:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>{{ elements }}</body>
</html>
Yep, that's all.
