Many to Many relation' list display with checkbox in Django

Question

I want a checkbox with the M2M list of Clinic/Hospital with an individual row. here are my forms

class ClinicHospitalForm(forms.ModelForm):
 class Meta():
     model = ClinicHospital
     fields = ('name','address','contact','lat','lon')

class DoctorForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta():
    model = Doctor
    fields = ('name','speciality','contact','clinic_hospital')

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '20 at 09:49

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You can set the widget to a CheckboxSelectMultiple widget [Django-doc]:

class DoctorForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Doctor
        fields = ('name','speciality','contact','clinic_hospital')
        widgets = {
            'clinic_hospital': forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple
        }

answered Jan 17 '20 at 09:49

Willem Van Onsem

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it shows just checkbox. I want list along with checkbox on each row of list. – Ali Raza Javeed Jan 17 '20 at 10:39
@AliRazaJaveed: no normally it shows one checkbox per item (see here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39449472/django-checkboxselectmultiple-shows-object-representation-instead-of-objects?rq=1). It looks like the css might mix it up. – Willem Van Onsem Jan 17 '20 at 10:41
fine when list is going long then it will look strange. – Ali Raza Javeed Jan 17 '20 at 10:42
@AliRazaJaveed: no, you just wrap it in a scrollable container; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7280389/scrollable-box-containing-list-of-checkboxes-in-html – Willem Van Onsem Jan 17 '20 at 10:45

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 17 '20 at 09:50

You can use CheckboxSelectMultiple .For example if clinic_hospital is your ManyToMany field and you want to display it as a checkbox then you can try like this

class DoctorForm(forms.ModelForm):
    clinic_hospital= forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField(widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple)
    class Meta():
       model = Doctor
       fields = ('name','speciality','contact','clinic_hospital')

Many to Many relation' list display with checkbox in Django

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