Widgets

Standard and common third party widgets

Most of the time, you will use the standard widgets provided by z3c.form. To learn more about z3c.form widgets, see the z3c.form documentation. To learn about setting custom widgets for Dexterity content types, see the schema introduction.

The table below shows some commonly used custom widgets.

Widget	Imported from	Field	Description
WysiwygFieldWidget	plone.app.z3cform.wysiwyg	Text	Use Plone’s standard WYSIWYG HTML editor on a standard text field. Note that if you used a RichText field, you will get the WYSIWYG editor automatically.
RichTextWidget	plone.app.textfield.widget	RichText	Use Plone’s standard WYSIWYG HTML editor on a RichText field. This also allows text-based markup such as reStructuredText.
AutocompleteFieldWidget	plone.formwidget.autocomplete	Choice	Autocomplete widget based on jQuery Autocomplete. Requires a Choice field with a query source. See vocabularies.
AutocompleteMultiFieldWidget	plone.formwidget.autocomplete	Collection	Multi-select version of the above. Used for a List, Tuple, Set or Frozenset with a Choice value_type.
ContentTreeFieldWidget	plone.formwidget.contenttree	RelationChoice	Content browser. Requires a query source with content objects as values.
MultiContentTreeFieldWidget	plone.formwidget.contenttree	RelationList	Content browser. Requires a query source with content objects as values.
NamedFileFieldWidget	plone.formwidget.namedfile	NamedFile	A file upload widget
NamedImageFieldWidget	plone.formwidget.namedimage	NamedImage	An image upload widget
TextLinesFieldWidget	plone.z3cform.textlines	Collection	One-per-line list entry for List, Tuple, Set or Frozenset fields. Requires a value_type of TextLine or ASCIILine.
SingleCheckBoxFieldWidget	z3c.form.browser.checkbox	Bool	A single checkbox for true/false.
CheckBoxFieldWidget	z3c.form.browser.checkbox	Collection	A set of checkboxes. Used for Set or Frozenset fields with a Choice value_type and a vocabulary.