Checking the right boxes

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 why that was. Perhaps one day, I will find out why.

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