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How to add a text editor field in Django?
Many online exam taking websites use text editors for text entries. image uploading, etc. Quill text editor is very popular and it also provides a model field to directly store in database. So, you don't need to configure anything extra to save its data in database.
In this article, we will see how to make a text editor field in Django.
First of all, create a Django project and an app. Do some basic settings like including urls of app. Create a media folder at the same level of project and app.
In settings.py, add −
INSTALLED_APPS = [ 'myapp.apps.MyappConfig', #django app ' django_quill' #module name] . . . . .. MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media') MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
Install the django_quill package −
pip install django_quill
Example
n app's urls.py, add the following −
from django.urls import path from . import views urlpatterns = [ path('', views.home,name="home"), ] urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT) Here we simply set our main view on url and media folder url.
Now, create a templates folder in app's directory and create home.html file in it. Add the following lines in home.html −
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> {{ form.media }} {% include 'django_quill/media.html' %} <title> TUT </title> </head> <body> <form role="form" method="POST"> <legend>Form Title</legend> {% csrf_token %} {{form}} <button type="submit" class="btn btnprimary">Submit</button> </form> </html> Here we rendered our form that we send from our backend.
In views.py, add the following lines −
from django.shortcuts import render from django import forms from .models import another_model class NewForm(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: model=another_model fields="__all__" def home(request): if request.method =="POST": form=NewForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): form.save() form=NewForm() return render(request,'home.html',{"form":form}) Here we created a form and then we rendered it using home view. For handling POST view, we validated the form data and then saved it.
In models.py, add the following lines −
from django.db import models from django_quill.fields import QuillField class another_model(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=200) place = models.CharField(max_length=100) animal = models.CharField(max_length=100) thing = models.CharField(max_length=100) content = QuillField(blank=True)
Here we created a model and in it, we created the text editor field, which will store the data of our text editor.
Output
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