Commit a44b10db authored by Russell Keith-Magee's avatar Russell Keith-Magee
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Fixed #12505 -- Clarified the use of the extra argument in formsets. Thanks to...

Fixed #12505 -- Clarified the use of the extra argument in formsets. Thanks to Andreas for the report, and timo for the draft patch.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@13218 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ would with a regular form::
    <tr><th><label for="id_form-0-title">Title:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-title" id="id_form-0-title" /></td></tr>
    <tr><th><label for="id_form-0-pub_date">Pub date:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="form-0-pub_date" id="id_form-0-pub_date" /></td></tr>

As you can see it only displayed one form. This is because by default the
``formset_factory`` defines one extra form. This can be controlled with the
``extra`` parameter::
As you can see it only displayed one empty form. The number of empty forms
that is displayed is controlled by the ``extra`` parameter. By default,
``formset_factory`` defines one extra form; the following example will
display two blank forms::

    >>> ArticleFormSet = formset_factory(ArticleForm, extra=2)