Suit ignores formfield_overrides

[dasloss]

I have formfield_overrides set to make textinputs and text areas wider for charfields and textfields respectively. Suit appears to ignore or override this making it difficult to widen text inputs and textareas for easier editing. What is the recommended way to do this with Suit?

[darklow]

I don't think Suit has something to do with it, since DS is mostly just a html/css/js skin.
Also default length of input and textarea is defined by Twitter Bootstrap.
Recommended way is using ModelForm and adding class="span6" for specific field widget.
See here an example: http://django-suit.readthedocs.org/en/develop/widgets.html

[dasloss]

I remove suit from installed apps and the formfield_overrides for the admin works fine (so it must have something to do with Suit).

So then that means for every separate admin.ModelAdmin I have to define out the whole form? Can you give a specific example of how to do this roughly in the following way:

class MyModelForm(ModelForm):
.... get text areas/inputs to be wider ...

class MyModelAdmin(ModelAdmin):
use MyModelForm (pseudocode)

class Admin1(MyModelAdmin):
class specific things

class Admin2(MyModelAdmin):
class specific things

etc... because it seems the widget way would require creating custom forms for every admin?

[darklow]

Sorry for delay. Summer vacation time :)

I just tested and formfield_overrides works fine for me.

Since you didn't show exact code, i guess you tried wrong method for "widening" inputs.
You must use CSS classes to do that, because using html size property is less powerful than twitter bootstrap css styles.

Here is how to do it using formfield_overrides:

class CountryAdmin(ModelAdmin):
    formfield_overrides = {
        models.CharField: {'widget': TextInput(attrs={'class':'span12'})},
    }

You can use span1 or span2 until span12 size. Or also you can add your own css class or use style attribute too.

Let me know if it works.
Also checkout out #58 if you would like to change default width for whole admin.

[gamesbook]

Thanks! Working now...