Weeknotes (2024 week 39)

CSS for Django forms

Not much going on in OSS land. I have been somewhat active in the official Django forum, discussing ways to add Python-level hooks to allow adding CSS classes around form fields and their labels. The discussion on the forum and on the pull request goes in the direction of allowing using custom BoundField classes per form or even per project (instead of only per field as is already possible today). This would allow overriding css_classes, e.g. to add a simple class="field". Together with :has() this would probably allow me to skip using custom HTML templates in 99% of all cases.

I have also been lurking in the Discord, but more to help and less to promote my packages and ideas :-)

Releases

• django-user-messages 1.1: Added Django 5.0, 5.1 to the CI, and fixed the migrations to no longer mention index_together at all. It seems that squashing the migrations wasn’t sufficient, I also had to actually delete the old migrations.
• blacknoise 1.1: Starlette’s FileResponse has gained support for the HTTP Range header, allowing me to remove my homegrown implementation from the package. The blacknoise implementation is now half as long as it was in 1.0.
• django-fhadmin 2.3: No new features, only tweaks to the styling and behavior prompted by updates to Django’s admin interface.
• django-cabinet 0.17: I have pruned the CI matrix and accepted a pull request adding a ru translation. I feel conflicted about that since I strongly believe that everything is political, but I don’t know if rejecting translations helps anyone.