removing <ul> from django forms validation errors

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removing <ul> from django forms validation errors

In Django the {{ form.field.errors }} gives the validation error for a field. But it always displays it as unordered list (). But I just want the error message. Is there a way to get the error message?

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Use {% for error in field.errors %} and then output each error one by one, this will produce just the string containing the message rather than an unordered list. The docs explain this:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.0/topics/forms/

AlbertoPL 2009-07-21 12:53:36

Also useful is {% for error in form.non_field_errors %} (which the docs don't mention) to get to the errors that aren't tied to a single specific field.

Steve Losh 2009-07-21 12:58:08

Yea, I really wish the docs were better documented, they sometime leave something to be desired, even if the docs are pretty good for things that ARE documented.

AlbertoPL 2009-07-21 13:10:19

Thanks a lot guys

Vicky 2009-07-22 05:45:55

You can just use {{ form.field.errors|striptags }}.

2010-08-12 15:04:41