Model Form -- Allow Pop Ups for Many-to-Many Fields?

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Hi all,

I’ve just finished building a for using model form class to build the attached form. It’s awesome, and I’m pleased, i.e. it’s working!! You’ll note that many of the fields are many-to-many. In admin, you can click the “plus” sign to add a new record via a popup, which I think is effective short of the pain of a popup. However, that ability is missing on my form. How do I add it here. Having trouble finding an answer for this on the inter webs. If this isn’t possible, or if the experts advise against it, what is another viable solution?

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Pop-ups and other forms of dynamic UI-type features aren’t (strictly speaking) handled by Django - they’re a feature of some JavaScript code that Django can serve out to the browser.

There are many different UI frameworks available for handling pop-ups (also known as modal dialog boxes). When we’re doing such things, we currently use jQuery and Bootstrap.

Ken