Django widgets for replacing textareas with CodeMirror2, an in-browser code editor.
- pip install django-codemirror2
- Add
codemirror2to INSTALLED_APPS - Collect static files:
python manage.py collectstatic
If you just want to see it in action, see the almost-ready-to-run project in examples.
from django import forms
from codemirror2.widgets import CodeMirrorEditor
class TestForm(forms.Form):
css = forms.Charfield(widget=CodeMirrorEditor(options={'mode': 'css'}))
The options argument will be passed as JSON to CodeMirror.fromTextArea, see
http://codemirror.net/manual.html#config for possible values.
If you want to use a mode that depends on other modes, for example htmlmixed, you
need to load the dependencies, too, by passing the modes parameter:
html = forms.Charfield(widget=CodeMirrorEditor(modes=['css', 'xml', 'javascript', 'htmlmixed'],
options={'mode': 'htmlmixed'}))
If you want to customize the Javascript used to initialize the CodeMirror editor, use script_template:
foo = forms.Charfield(widget=CodeMirrorEditor(options={'mode': 'xml'},
script_template='some/template.html'))