How to add a text editor field in Django?

Server Side Programming Programming Python

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]
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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

Ath Tripathi

Published on 26-Aug-2021 12:55:25

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