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Django widgets styled with Material Components for the Web.

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Easily convert your Django Forms and ModelForms to use widgets styled with Material Components for the Web.

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Quick Start

  1. Install Django Material Widgets:

    pip install django-material-widgets
  2. Add material_widgets to INSTALLED_APPS in your settings.py:

    INSTALLED_APPS = [
        ...
        'material_widgets',
    ]
  3. Edit your forms.py:

    • Import material_widgets.widgets.MaterialForm and/or material_widgets.widgets.MaterialModelForm:

      from material_widgets import MaterialForm, MaterialModelForm
    • Change forms using django.forms.Form and/or django.forms.ModelForm to MaterialForm or MaterialModelForm respectively:

      class MyForm(forms.Form): ⇨ class MyForm(MaterialForm):
      
      class MyModelForm(forms.ModelForm): ⇨ class MyModelForm(MaterialModelForm):
  4. Edit your HTML templates:

    • Change {{ form }} template variables to {{ form.as_components }}:

      {{ form.as_p }} ⇨ {{ form.as_components }}
    • Add {{ form.media.css }} to your <head> tag:

      <head>
          {{ form.media.css }}
      </head>
    • Add the mdc-typography CSS class to your <body> tag:

      <body class="mdc-typography">
    • Add {{ form.media.js }} to the bottom of your <body> tag:

      <body class="mdc-typography">
          ...
      
          {{ form.media.js }}
      </body>
    • (Optional) Add stylesheet links:

      <head>
          <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:300,400,500">
          <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/icon?family=Material+Icons">
      </head>

Demo

https://ooknosi.github.com/django_material_widgets

To view the demo locally at http://localhost:8000:

git clone https://github.com/ooknosi/django_material_widgets.git
cd django_material_widgets/src
python manage.py migrate --settings=demo.settings
python manage.py runserver --settings=demo.settings

Documentation

http://django-material-widgets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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