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| author | Jon Dufresne <jon.dufresne@gmail.com> | 2016-07-21 22:05:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Tim Graham <timograham@gmail.com> | 2016-08-04 19:16:54 -0400 |
| commit | 50e299dbfbbfd796e63e7e13b4566cf69d2c4acb (patch) | |
| tree | e099779317d600e23cdf45f2e7c0b5a1e69791d8 /docs/ref/forms/widgets.txt | |
| parent | ebed9ee8d5e4268d9393261633b2c23cffd426fc (diff) | |
Fixed #26928 -- Changed forms' checked attribute to HTML5 boolean style.
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diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/widgets.txt b/docs/ref/forms/widgets.txt index aae92a37c9..6af97469c9 100644 --- a/docs/ref/forms/widgets.txt +++ b/docs/ref/forms/widgets.txt @@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ A widget is Django's representation of an HTML input element. The widget handles the rendering of the HTML, and the extraction of data from a GET/POST dictionary that corresponds to the widget. +The HTML generated by the built-in widgets uses HTML5 syntax, targeting +``<!DOCTYPE html>``. For example, it uses boolean attributes such as ``checked`` +rather than the XHTML style of ``checked='checked'``. + .. tip:: Widgets should not be confused with the :doc:`form fields </ref/forms/fields>`. |