Django CharsLeft Widgets & Admin Mixin

Inspired from django-charsleft-widget by Timmy O'Mahony and django-charsleft-widget by Basil Shubin

django-admin-charsleft provides a simple way to add information to django's admin interface about the remaining characters for both CharField and TextField inputs, relying on the max_length attribute.

django-admin-charsleft - as the name implies - is intended for the use inside django-admin, whereas the original projects provide more generic widgets.

It plays nice with the default django-admin (>=1.9) - and also seamlessly integrates with django-slick-admin.

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Installation

Using the latest version from PyPI:

pip install django-admin-charsleft

Using this GitHub repository:

pip install -e "git://github.com/palmbeach-interactive/django-admin-charsleft.git#egg=django-admin-charsleft"

Then add charsleft to INSTALLED_APPS.

Usage

As Admin Mixin

django-admin-charsleft provides a CharsLeftAdminMixin class that can be used to extend your admin classes:

from charsleft.admin import CharsLeftAdminMixin

@admin.register(MyModel)
class MyModelAdmin(CharsLeftAdminMixin, admin.ModelAdmin):
    ...

The mixin can be used on admin.ModelAdmin and as well on admin.TabularInline and admin.StackedInline.