django: Use a text area in your form

It was just one of those days when I stumbled upon this little gotcha.

I was a bit baffled when my textarea field would not show up on the form.

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1.class YourForm(forms.Form):

2.  name = forms.CharField(maxlength = 20)

3. 

4.  # Textarea done WRONG

5.  #address = forms.Textarea()

6. 

7.  # Textarea done right!

8.  address = forms.CharField(widget = forms.widgets.Textarea())

A simple mistake and a little tricky to figure out because it fails silently.

THIS IS SPARTA DJANGO!

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