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Flask Framework Cookbook

You're reading from   Flask Framework Cookbook Enhance your Flask skills with advanced techniques and build dynamic, responsive web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804611104
Length 318 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Shalabh Aggarwal Shalabh Aggarwal
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Flask Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Flask Configurations FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Templating with Jinja 4. Chapter 3: Data Modeling in Flask 5. Chapter 4: Working with Views 6. Part 2: Flask Deep Dive
7. Chapter 5: Web Forms with WTForms 8. Chapter 6: Authenticating in Flask 9. Chapter 7: RESTful API Building 10. Chapter 8: Admin Interface for Flask Apps 11. Chapter 9: Internationalization and Localization 12. Part 3: Advanced Flask
13. Chapter 10: Debugging, Error Handling, and Testing 14. Chapter 11: Deployment and Post-Deployment 15. Chapter 12: Microservices and Containers 16. Chapter 13: GPT with Flask 17. Chapter 14: Additional Tips and Tricks 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a custom widget

Just like we can create custom fields and validators, we can also create custom widgets. These widgets allow us to control how our fields will look on the frontend. Each field type has a widget associated with it, and WTForms, by itself, provides a lot of basic and HTML5 widgets. In this recipe, to understand how to write a custom widget, we will convert our custom selection field for Category into a radio field. I agree with those of you who would argue that we can directly use the radio field provided by WTForms. Here, we are just trying to understand how to do it ourselves.

Information

The widgets provided by default by WTForms can be found at https://wtforms.readthedocs.io/en/3.0.x/widgets/.

How to do it...

In our previous recipe, we created CategoryField. This field used the Select widget, which was provided by the Select superclass. Let’s replace the Select widget with a radio input in models.py:

from wtforms.widgets import html_params...
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