1.8.3 Creating Custom Forms

Rather than creating a web.form.Form object and adding fields, it is also possible to define a custom form object. This has the advantage that you can easily override the default behaviour of the web.form.Form object so that your form will display information in a different way. More information on customising web.form.Form objects is given later on. The code below creates exactly the same form object as we created in the example above.

>>> class ExampleForm(web.form.Form):
...     def setup(self):
...         self.addField(
...             field.Input(
...                 name='box',
...                 default='Default Text',
...                 description='Input Box:',
...                 size=14, maxlength=25
...             )
...         )
...         self.addAction('Submit')
...
>>> exampleForm = ExampleForm(name='form', action='forms.py', method='get')