From 11f0899bbe7c04dc6109f57c3b36ed8621b8f08e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Presta <nick@nickpresta.ca>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 23:58:51 -0400
Subject: Fixed #11776 -- Added CSS class for non-field/top of form errors.

Thanks Daniel Pope for the suggestion.
---
 docs/releases/1.8.txt       |  4 ++++
 docs/topics/forms/index.txt | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

(limited to 'docs')

diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
index 056ea86baf..f716c995ca 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
@@ -129,6 +129,10 @@ Forms
   the ``<label>`` tags for required fields will have this class present in its
   attributes.
 
+* The rendering of non-field errors in unordered lists (``<ul>``) now includes
+  ``nonfield`` in its list of classes to distinguish them from field-specific
+  errors.
+
 * :class:`~django.forms.Field` now accepts a
   :attr:`~django.forms.Field.label_suffix` argument, which will override the
   form's :attr:`~django.forms.Form.label_suffix`. This enables customizing the
diff --git a/docs/topics/forms/index.txt b/docs/topics/forms/index.txt
index f3afac5ab9..8db24f68d0 100644
--- a/docs/topics/forms/index.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/forms/index.txt
@@ -292,6 +292,17 @@ over them::
         </ol>
     {% endif %}
 
+.. versionchanged:: 1.8
+
+Non-field errors (and/or hidden field errors that are rendered at the top of
+the form when using helpers like ``form.as_p()``) will be rendered with an
+additional class of ``nonfield`` to help distinguish them from field-specific
+errors. For example, ``{{ form.non_field_errors }}`` would look like::
+
+    <ul class="errorlist nonfield">
+        <li>Generic validation error</li>
+    </ul>
+
 Looping over the form's fields
 ------------------------------
 
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