Re: Setting default form value in template

On Thursday, 25 August 2011 06:10:38 UTC+1, raj wrote:

I'm trying to set a default form value in the template, and not in the
forms.py file (because I'm trying to make the default value dynamic
depending on something that javascript will return).
So To test it, I have the following line in my template:

{{ form.first_name|default:"Enter Your first name" }}

The issue is that it doesn't work, And I can't figure out why. Am I
doing something illegal?
Help Please. Thank you.

No, that doesn't work at all, and never will. The "default" filter is for providing a value in case a particular context variable is empty, not for setting a form field's default value.

Your reasoning doesn't seem to make sense, in any case. Templates are rendered server-side, so Javascript can have no effect on what is rendered. Do this in the view.

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DR.

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