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-rw-r--r--docs/ref/forms/api.txt18
-rw-r--r--docs/releases/1.7.txt4
-rw-r--r--docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt6
3 files changed, 18 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/api.txt b/docs/ref/forms/api.txt
index 950bd3a088..10e85b4019 100644
--- a/docs/ref/forms/api.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/forms/api.txt
@@ -982,10 +982,20 @@ classes::
.. versionadded:: 1.7
-* It's possible to opt-out from a ``Field`` inherited from a parent class by
- shadowing it. While any non-``Field`` value works for this purpose, it's
- recommended to use ``None`` to make it explicit that a field is being
- nullified.
+* It's possible to declaratively remove a ``Field`` inherited from a parent
+ class by setting the name to be ``None`` on the subclass. For example::
+
+ >>> from django import forms
+
+ >>> class ParentForm(forms.Form):
+ ... name = forms.CharField()
+ ... age = forms.IntegerField()
+
+ >>> class ChildForm(ParentForm):
+ ... name = None
+
+ >>> ChildForm().fields.keys()
+ ... ['age']
.. _form-prefix:
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.7.txt b/docs/releases/1.7.txt
index a8e600a04b..0b43b97d73 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.7.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.7.txt
@@ -544,8 +544,8 @@ Forms
inheriting from both ``Form`` and ``ModelForm`` simultaneously have been
removed as long as ``ModelForm`` appears first in the MRO.
-* It's now possible to opt-out from a ``Form`` field declared in a parent class
- by shadowing it with a non-``Field`` value.
+* It's now possible to remove a field from a ``Form`` when subclassing by
+ setting the name to ``None``.
* The new :meth:`~django.forms.Form.add_error()` method allows adding errors
to specific form fields.
diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
index e96345f155..4ac4dcea90 100644
--- a/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/forms/modelforms.txt
@@ -666,10 +666,8 @@ There are a couple of things to note, however.
.. versionadded:: 1.7
-* It's possible to opt-out from a ``Field`` inherited from a parent class by
- shadowing it. While any non-``Field`` value works for this purpose, it's
- recommended to use ``None`` to make it explicit that a field is being
- nullified.
+* It's possible to declaratively remove a ``Field`` inherited from a parent class by
+ setting the name to be ``None`` on the subclass.
You can only use this technique to opt out from a field defined declaratively
by a parent class; it won't prevent the ``ModelForm`` metaclass from generating