django/docs
Loic Bistuer 54cd930baf Clarfied the ModelForm docs with respect to generated vs. declared fields.
The ModelForm docs suggested that fields defined declaratively override
default fields generated from the form Meta.

This is conceptually wrong, especially with inheritance in mind. Meta is
usually defined on the topmost ModelForm subclass, while fields can come
from anywhere in the MRO, especially base classes; therefore we suggested
that something defined in a base class override something from a subclass.

This patch rephrases the docs around the idea that Meta is used to generate
*missing* fields.

Refs #8620, #19617.

Thanks @mjtamlyn and @timgraham for the review.
2013-10-14 10:54:22 -04:00
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_ext Whitespace cleanup. 2013-10-10 16:49:20 -04:00
_theme/djangodocs Whitespace cleanup. 2013-10-10 16:49:20 -04:00
faq Fixed #8918 -- Made FileField.upload_to optional. 2013-10-11 08:07:25 -04:00
howto Fixed #21218 -- Typo on docs/howto/upgrade-version.txt 2013-10-03 20:13:33 -04:00
internals Amend my description in committers.txt. 2013-10-14 11:54:37 +01:00
intro Fixed #21210 -- Documented when runserver doesn't auto-restart. 2013-10-14 10:36:18 -04:00
man More migration docs, and conversion of all easy syncdb references 2013-07-25 16:19:36 +01:00
misc Whitespace cleanup. 2013-10-10 16:49:20 -04:00
ref Fixed #21210 -- Documented when runserver doesn't auto-restart. 2013-10-14 10:36:18 -04:00
releases Fixed #15888 -- Made tablename argument of createcachetable optional 2013-10-14 13:24:40 +02:00
topics Clarfied the ModelForm docs with respect to generated vs. declared fields. 2013-10-14 10:54:22 -04:00
Makefile Allowed overriding variables in docs/Makefile. 2013-07-29 06:51:54 -04:00
README Whitespace cleanup. 2013-10-10 16:49:20 -04:00
conf.py Fixed #21213 -- Added docs for Django's mailing lists. 2013-10-04 10:00:36 -04:00
contents.txt Removed an obsolete documentation page about admin style customization. 2012-09-10 17:19:35 -07:00
glossary.txt Fixed #18451 -- Vastly improved class based view documentation. 2012-06-11 10:40:23 +02:00
index.txt Fixed #21213 -- Added docs for Django's mailing lists. 2013-10-04 10:00:36 -04:00
make.bat Fixed #19516 - Fixed remaining broken links. 2013-01-02 18:32:57 -05:00

README

The documentation in this tree is in plain text files and can be viewed using
any text file viewer.

It uses ReST (reStructuredText) [1], and the Sphinx documentation system [2].
This allows it to be built into other forms for easier viewing and browsing.

To create an HTML version of the docs:

* Install Sphinx (using ``sudo pip install Sphinx`` or some other method)

* In this docs/ directory, type ``make html`` (or ``make.bat html`` on
  Windows) at a shell prompt.

The documentation in _build/html/index.html can then be viewed in a web browser.

[1] http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
[2] http://sphinx-doc.org/