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I’ve been trying for half the day to get radio buttons in a custom template to work. The buttons are generated in a for loop that builds a table row for each choice (iterating over a queryset called The goal is to have the I hope that I’ve put enough keywords in this post so that future stumped Djangonauts can find some help.<\/p>\n As always, leave your comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (This is a ‘Note to Self’ post) I’ve been trying for half the day to get radio buttons in a custom template to work. The buttons are generated in a for loop that builds a table row for each choice (iterating over a queryset called cls), including this code for the row’s radio button: input … <\/p>\ncls<\/code>), including this code for the row’s radio button:<\/p>\ninput type=\"radio\" name=\"reg_choice_1\" value=\"{{ cls.id }}\"\r\n {% ifequal srform.reg_choice_1 cls.id %}CHECKED{% endifequal %}<\/pre>\nifequal<\/code> test tell me if the row’s cls.id<\/code> matches the value set in the form. However, I didn’t know how to access that value. After many Google searches, perusal of the Django documentation, and even a failed attempt to follow the template rendering code, I was stumped. As a wild guess, I tried the .data<\/code> attribute, and it worked! Here’s the updated (and functional) code:<\/p>\ninput type=\"radio\" name=\"reg_choice_1\" value=\"{{ cls.id }}\" \r\n{% ifequal srform.reg_choice_1.data cls.id %}CHECKED{% endifequal %}<\/pre>\n