How to add a Delete button to django.forms generated form?

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How to add a Delete button to django.forms generated edit form (note, NOT admin)?

Its very easy to add a delete view on (/app/model/<id>/delete/ etc) but how to add a "Delete" button alongside the generated form?

I've got to be missing something easy?

zsquare · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-01 21:15:48Z

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Add a submit button to the template, set the name as 'delete', check in your view if it was clicked:

if request.POST.get('delete'):
    obj.delete()

answered Mar 1, 2011 at 21:15

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Ryan Over a year ago

I was expecting some way of doing this automagically via forms.py Meta: or similar?

zsquare Over a year ago

Django forms dont do buttons. Its upto you to put them in the template. There are pluggable apps (django-uni-form) though that will allow you to create forms with buttons in the form definition.

Visgean Skeloru · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-14 21:50:34Z

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You could use some generic form like this

class DeletableModelForm(forms.ModelForm):
    """
    Model form that allows you to delete the object
    """
    delete = forms.BooleanField(
        initial=False,
        help_text=_('Check this to delete this object')
    )

    def save(self, commit=True):
        if self.cleaned_data['delete']:
            return self.instance.delete()
        return super(DeletableModelForm, self).save()

And then you could restyle the checkbox to look like button. But you are probably better of with normal button with name...

answered Feb 14, 2016 at 21:50

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