Unable to get tinymce to work in django: AttributeError: module 'django.db.models' has no attribute 'HTMLField'

Question

I am trying to get this package to work in Django: https://github.com/romanvm/django-tinymce4-lite

I'm using docker compose for my django installation. The setup is identical to this one here: https://docs.docker.com/compose/django/

Earlier when I encountered similar errors it had to do with the pip package not being properly loaded in docker. Now, I have loaded the "django-tinymce4-lite" package as follows:

• I have edited my requirements.txt in my project
• I have rebuilt my docker image

• When I log onto the docker instance, I can check the presence of the package using this:

  $ pip freeze Django==2.0.6 django-bootstrap3==10.0.1 django-tinymce4-lite==1.7.1 jsmin==2.2.2 Pillow==5.1.0 psycopg2-binary==2.7.4 pytz==2018.4

This seems to be in line with my requirements.txt file:

Django>=2.0
psycopg2-binary
django-bootstrap3
django-tinymce4-lite
Pillow

However, when I follow the instructions I do this:

1. Add tinymce to INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py for your Django project

   INSTALLED_APPS = ( ... 'tinymce', )

2. Add tinymce.urls to urls.py for your project:

   urlpatterns = [ ... url(r'^tinymce/', include('tinymce.urls')), ... ]

NOTE: because I use Django 2 I have had to rewrite this. Here is what I use:

path('tinymce/', include('tinymce.urls')),

I have tried this both in my main project urls.py as well as in my app urls.py. The next step is:

In your code:

from django.db import models
from tinymce import HTMLField

class MyModel(models.Model):
    ...
    content = HTMLField('Content')

However, the moment that I do this, I get this error:

AttributeError: module 'django.db.models' has no attribute 'HTMLField'

Anybody any idea how I could further debug/investigate this?

Answer 1

The error means you are trying to access the HTMLField attribute of the models class; so probably somewhere you have typed models.HTMLField by mistake.