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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt | 12 |
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diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt index 3ce94c1b0d..1969474b89 100644 --- a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt +++ b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt @@ -335,12 +335,14 @@ doesn't validate -- i.e., if ``form.errors`` evaluates to ``True``. If an optional field doesn't appear in the form's data, the resulting model instance uses the model field :attr:`~django.db.models.Field.default`, if there is one, for that field. This behavior doesn't apply to fields that use -:class:`~django.forms.CheckboxInput` and -:class:`~django.forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple` (or any custom widget whose +:class:`~django.forms.CheckboxInput`, +:class:`~django.forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple`, or +:class:`~django.forms.SelectMultiple` (or any custom widget whose :meth:`~django.forms.Widget.value_omitted_from_data` method always returns -``False``) since an unchecked checkbox doesn't appear in the data of an HTML -form submission. Use a custom form field or widget if you're designing an API -and want the default fallback for a :class:`~django.db.models.BooleanField`. +``False``) since an unchecked checkbox and unselected ``<select multiple>`` +don't appear in the data of an HTML form submission. Use a custom form field or +widget if you're designing an API and want the default fallback behavior for a +field that uses one of these widgets. This ``save()`` method accepts an optional ``commit`` keyword argument, which accepts either ``True`` or ``False``. If you call ``save()`` with |