Chosen - Select Box

Usage

Add the following to your form template (probably below the {% endblock content %} block):

{% block script_extra %}
  {{ block.super }}
  {% include 'base/_chosen.html' %}
{% endblock script_extra %}

Any element with a class of chosen-select will become a chosen drop-down (dropdown) box. You can add this in the __init__ method of a form e.g:

class MailChimpSettingsForm(forms.ModelForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        f = self.fields["default_consent"]
        f.widget.attrs.update({"class": "chosen-select"})

Validation / Errors

If your Chosen select box is set to required and the user has not selected an item, the browser will attempt to pop-up a message. This message does not appear (for some reason on Firefox), so you might like to make the field required=False and add a clean method to the form e.g:

def clean_product_category(self):
    data = self.cleaned_data.get("product_category")
    if not data:
        raise forms.ValidationError(
            "You must select a product category",
            code="product_category__required",
        )
    return data