[Answer]-Searching with a defined query in Django / Python

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i’m not really experienced in django too, but have been working around for 3 months now, i will advise you to make use of the django-auto-complete-light or django-ajax-selects for your frontend search in the navigation bar, and django-salmonela for your backend fields. those are helpful. and the input tag doesn’t really work with your django forms, so you’ll have to use a class in your div tag and explicitly call each form field using the {{ form.fieldName }} then make use of the widget to reference your template tags, or just use the above packages which know much better how to handle your fields.

example:

within your template: 

<div class="container text-center form-horizontal topSpace">
    <form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data" action="{% url 'create-recipe' %}">
        {% csrf_token %}

             {{ form.non_field_errors }}

                <div class="form-group">
                    {{ form.name.errors }}
                        <label for="{{ form.name.id_for_label }}" class="col-lg-4 control-label">Name:</label>
                                <div class="col-lg-1">
                                    {# <input type="text" class="form-control" id="user-name" placeholder="Enter your name">#}
                                    {{ form.name }}
                                </div>
                </div><!-- end form-name-->

            {{ form.as_p }}

        <input type="submit" value="Add Recipe">
    </form>
</div>

then in your form: 

class RecipeForm(autocomplete_light.ModelForm, forms.ModelForm):

class Meta:
    model = Recipe
    exclude = []
👤mkwilfreid

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