Commit 855bc7b0 authored by James Bennett's avatar James Bennett
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Fixed #6266: Added note to docs/modelforms.txt pointing out that they're just...

Fixed #6266: Added note to docs/modelforms.txt pointing out that they're just standard forms and have all the same methods as standard forms


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@@ -231,6 +231,16 @@ For example::
    # Create and save the new author instance. There's no need to do anything else.
    >>> new_author = f.save()

Other than the ``save()`` and ``save_m2m()`` methods, a ``ModelForm``
works exactly the same way as any other ``newforms`` form. For
example, the ``is_valid()`` method is used to check for validity, the
``is_multipart()`` method is used to determine whether a form requires
multipart file upload (and hence whether ``request.FILES`` must be
passed to the form), etc.; see `the standard newforms documentation`_
for more information.

.. _the standard newforms documentation: ../newforms/

Using a subset of fields on the form
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