Default Django checkbox to be true and hidden

Question

I am working with Satchmo and am wondering for the newsletter subscription, how to make it so when people sign up, they are automatically subscribed to the newsletter. I found this line of code in forms.py:

newsletter = forms.BooleanField(label=_('Receive Daily Deals'),
    widget=forms.CheckboxInput(), required=False)

I am assuming that in the widget there, I can add something to make it automatically be true and hidden.

Isn't that wrong? if it is hidden people can't un-select it. — James Khoury, Apr 29 '11 at 04:03

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 29 '11 at 04:29

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newsletter = forms.BooleanField(label=_('Receive Daily Deals'),
    widget=forms.HiddenInput(), required=False, initial=True)

answered Apr 29 '11 at 04:29

Torsten Engelbrecht

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This will render the checkbox unusable – ryuusenshi Jul 25 '13 at 12:55
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This render input type as "hidden" not "checkbox" – Mesut Tasci Feb 14 '17 at 07:34

Mesut Tasci · Answer 2 · 2017-05-23T06:31:31.337

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You can make checkbox hidden with adding a class to element shown as below:

// css
// .hidden { display: none;}

newsletter = forms.BooleanField(
    label=_('Receive Daily Deals'),
    widget=forms.CheckboxInput(attrs={'class': 'hidden'}), 
    required=False, 
    initial=True
)

edited May 23 '17 at 06:31

answered Feb 14 '17 at 07:48

Mesut Tasci

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Default Django checkbox to be true and hidden

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