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| author | Boulder Sprinters <boulder-sprinters@djangoproject.com> | 2007-04-02 15:36:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Boulder Sprinters <boulder-sprinters@djangoproject.com> | 2007-04-02 15:36:31 +0000 |
| commit | a3053273c8a5d450a0cd73ee8deebc277d8c4170 (patch) | |
| tree | 040ebe76a8c7814e888c6669deec86d6c7ef8940 /docs/forms.txt | |
| parent | b86d69f52920adf8e065bf6952ab6b3814211d4e (diff) | |
boulder-oracle-sprint: Merged to [4905].
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/boulder-oracle-sprint@4906 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/forms.txt b/docs/forms.txt index f76f6d27ef..ce1010235f 100644 --- a/docs/forms.txt +++ b/docs/forms.txt @@ -517,10 +517,10 @@ to put punctuation at the end of your validation messages. When are validators called? --------------------------- -After a form has been submitted, Django first checks to see that all the -required fields are present and non-empty. For each field that passes that -test *and if the form submission contained data* for that field, all the -validators for that field are called in turn. The emphasized portion in the +After a form has been submitted, Django validates each field in turn. First, +if the field is required, Django checks that it is present and non-empty. Then, +if that test passes *and the form submission contained data* for that field, all +the validators for that field are called in turn. The emphasized portion in the last sentence is important: if a form field is not submitted (because it contains no data -- which is normal HTML behavior), the validators are not run against the field. |