A student created a modelform but was struggling with one of the fields. He wanted it to render as checkboxes that would allow the user to select multiple choices. I was surprised that it was actually a little challenging to find any article online that showed one how exactly to do this. Perhaps I wasn't using the right key words in my search? I did figure it out fairly quickly in the end. models.py class Cats(models.Model): fav_toys = models.CharField(max_length=100) forms.py TOYS = [ ('Rubberband', 'Rubberband'), ('Ball', 'Ball'), ('Feather', 'Feather'), ] class CatForm(ModelForm): class Meta: model = Cats fields = '__all__' widgets = { 'fav_toys': forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple(choices=TOYS), } And that did the trick! It's interesting that when the choices were defined in models.py rather than forms.py, it didn't work. I'm not entirely sure as to w
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