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django-tables2 - An app for creating HTML tables
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.. note::
Prior to v0.6.0 this package was a fork of miracle2k's and both were known
as *django-tables*. This caused some problems (e.g. ambiguity and inability
to put this library on PyPI) so as of v0.6.0 this package is known as
*django-tables2*.
django-tables2 simplifies the task of turning sets of data into HTML tables. It
has native support for pagination and sorting. It does for HTML tables what
``django.forms`` does for HTML forms. e.g.
.. figure:: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/33499139/django-tables2/example.png
:align: center
:alt: An example table rendered using django-tables2
Its features include:
- Any iterable can be a data-source, but special support for Django querysets
is included.
- The builtin UI does not rely on JavaScript.
- Support for automatic table generation based on a Django model.
- Supports custom column functionality via subclassing.
- Pagination.
- Column based table sorting.
- Template tag to enable trivial rendering to HTML.
- Generic view mixin for use in Django 1.3.
Creating a table is as simple as::
import django_tables2 as tables
class SimpleTable(tables.Table):
class Meta:
model = Simple
This would then be used in a view::
def simple_list(request):
queryset = Simple.objects.all()
table = SimpleTable(queryset)
return render_to_response("simple_list.html", {"table": table},
context_instance=RequestContext(request))
And finally in the template::
{% load django_tables2 %}
{% render_table table %}
This example shows one of the simplest cases, but django-tables2 can do a lot
more! Check out the `documentation`__ for more details.
.. __: http://django-tables2.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Building the documentation
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If you want to build the docs from within a virtualenv, and Sphinx is installed
globally, use::
make html SPHINXBUILD="python $(which sphinx-build)"
Change log
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v0.9.6
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- Fix bug that caused an ordered column's th to have no HTML attributes.
v0.9.5
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- Updated example project to add colspan on footer cell so table border renders
correctly in Webkit.
- Fix regression that caused 'sortable' class on <th>.
- Table.__init__ no longer *always* calls .order_by() on querysets, fixes #55.
This does introduce a slight backwards incompatibility. `Table.order_by` now
has the possibility of returning `None`, previously it would *always* return
an `OrderByTuple`.
- DeclarativeColumnsMetaclass.__new__ now uses super()
- Testing now requires pylint and Attest >=0.5.3
v0.9.4
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- Fix regression that caused column verbose_name values that were marked as
safe to be escaped. Now any verbose_name values that are instances of
SafeData are used unmodified.
v0.9.3
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- Fix regression in ``SingleTableMixin``.
- Remove stray `print` statement.
v0.9.2
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- `SingleTableView` now uses `RequestConfig`. This fixes issues with
``order_by_field`, `page_field`, and `per_page_field` not being honored.
- Add `Table.Meta.per_page` and change `Table.paginate` to use it as default.
- Add `title` template filter. It differs from Django's built-in `title` filter
because it operates on an individual word basis and leaves words containing
capitals untouched. **Warning**: use `{% load ... from ... %}` to avoid
inadvertantly replacing Django's builtin `title` template filter.
- `BoundColumn.verbose_name` no longer does `capfirst`, titlising is now the
responsbility of `Column.header`.
- `BoundColumn.__unicode__` now uses `BoundColumn.header` rather than
`BoundColumn.verbose_name`.
v0.9.1
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- Fix version in setup.py (doh)
v0.9.0
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- Add support for column attributes (see Attrs)
- Add BoundRows.items() to yield (bound_column, cell) pairs
- Tried to make docs more concise. Much stronger promotion of using
RequestConfig and {% querystring %}
v0.8.4
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- Removed random 'print' statements.
- Tweaked 'paleblue' theme css to be more flexible
- removed `whitespace: no-wrap`
- header background image to support more than 2 rows of text
v0.8.3
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- Fixed stupid import mistake. Tests didn't pick it up due to them ignoring
`ImportError`.
v0.8.2
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- `SingleTableView` now inherits from `ListView` which enables automatic
`foo_list.html` template name resolution (thanks dramon for reporting)
- `render_table` template tag no suppresses exceptions when `DEBUG=True`
v0.8.1
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- Fixed bug in render_table when giving it a template (issue #41)
v0.8.0
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- Added translation support in the default template via `{% trans %}`
- Removed `basic_table.html`, `Table.as_html()` now renders `table.html` but
will clobber the querystring of the current request. Use the `render_table`
template tag instead
- `render_table` now supports an optional second argument -- the template to
use when rendering the table
- `Table` now supports declaring which template to use when rendering to HTML
- Django >=1.3 is now required
- Added support for using django-haystack's `SearchQuerySet` as a data source
- The default template `table.html` now includes block tags to make it easy to
extend to change small pieces
- Fixed table template parsing problems being hidden due to a subsequent
exception being raised
- Http404 exceptions are no longer raised during a call to `Table.paginate()`,
instead it now occurs when `Table.page` is accessed
- Fixed bug where a table couldn't be rendered more than once if it was
paginated
- Accessing `Table.page` now returns a new page every time, rather than reusing
a single object
v0.7.8
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- Tables now support using both ``sequence`` and ``exclude`` (issue #32).
- ``Sequence`` class moved to ``django_tables2/utils.py``.
- Table instances now support modification to the ``exclude`` property.
- Removed ``BoundColumns._spawn_columns``.
- ``Table.data``, ``Table.rows``, and ``Table.columns`` are now attributes
rather than properties.