How to enter any budget value?

Question

I set my Django model field budget but when I try the following...

budget = models.DecimalField(max_digits=5, decimal_places=2)

...only non-numeric characters can be entered (like

abc,#

etc...

This should work. - I can key in digits in other programs on my computer, but not in my web form budget field. - I tried other fields like: models.IntegerField() or models.PositiveIntegerField() - I ran npm run dev, python manage.py makemigrations, migrate, runserver. Same thing. Digit keys frozen.

Any other ideas? Thanks.

======= UPDATE

from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

class Order(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    email = models.EmailField(max_length=100, unique=True)
    shopping_list = models.CharField(max_length=500, blank=True)
    budget = models.DecimalField(max_digits=5, decimal_places=2)
    owner = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name="leads", on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True)
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

======= UPDATE

I tried the code in my REACT frontend web form by Iqbal Hussain... I still get the same. Only characters are accepted in the DecimalField. I thought that was a Django backend issue...It could be a REACT-related issue.

======= UPDATE

The inspector shows:

<input class="form-control" type="number" name="integer" value="">

The React code for the budget input is:

...
<div className="form-group">
    <label>Budget</label>
    <input
        className="form-control"
        type="number"
        name="integer"
        onChange={this.onChange}
        value={budget}
    />
</div>
...

Can you share the model form that you're having issues with? Maybe the full model might help too — Iain Shelvington, Jan 05 '20 at 12:42
Can you right-click and "inspect" the budget input and add the resulting html element to the question? Also, can you share the react code for the budget input? — Iain Shelvington, Jan 05 '20 at 14:02
`onChange = e => this.setState({ [e.target.name]:e.target.value });` # This only says that we can input the data we enter. — timotom, Jan 05 '20 at 14:30
`value={budget}` this comes from the state? You've given the budget input the name "integer" — Iain Shelvington, Jan 05 '20 at 14:33
Nice observation...Now I can enter numbers and letters. I'm getting there. — timotom, Jan 05 '20 at 14:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 05 '20 at 12:58

I have checked your code. its seems to be ok.

Please use this code to input values from backend(admin panel) in models.py

class Ordercheck(models.Model):
      budget = models.DecimalField(max_digits=5, decimal_places=2)

in admin.py:

from .models import Ordercheck

admin.site.register(Ordercheck)

Now create a new entry for budget field. its working here

timotom · Answer 2 · 2020-01-05T16:07:33.583

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I found the answer. Iain Shelvington put me on the right track. He spotted a React issue instead of a Django issue. Then I fixed my issue with this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/57954369/11301109. Perfect!

edited Jan 05 '20 at 16:07

answered Jan 05 '20 at 15:56

timotom

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