custom multiple checkbox field for wtforms and flask

multiplecheckbox.py

from flask import Flask, render_template
from flask.ext.wtf import Form, widgets, SelectMultipleField

SECRET_KEY = 'development'

app = Flask(__name__)
app.config.from_object(__name__)

class MultiCheckboxField(SelectMultipleField):
    widget = widgets.ListWidget(prefix_label=False)
    option_widget = widgets.CheckboxInput()


class SimpleForm(Form):
    string_of_files = ['one\r\ntwo\r\nthree\r\n']
    list_of_files = string_of_files[0].split()
    # create a list of value/description tuples
    files = [(x, x) for x in list_of_files]
    example = MultiCheckboxField('Label', choices=files)

@app.route('/',methods=['post','get'])
def hello_world():
    form = SimpleForm()
    if form.validate_on_submit():
        print form.example.data
    else:
        print form.errors
    return render_template('example.html',form=form)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

Very helpful,
Just in case somebody is having problems rendering MultiCheckboxField and you don't want to change your CSS just to include that, I'd recommend adding render_kw param to parse inline style properties.

e.g;
MultiCheckboxField('My Label', choices=list_of_tuples, render_kw={'style': 'height: fit-content; list-style: none;'})

Very helpful, Just in case somebody is having problems rendering MultiCheckboxField and you don't want to change your CSS just to include that, I'd recommend adding render_kw param to parse inline style properties.

e.g; MultiCheckboxField('My Label', choices=list_of_tuples, render_kw={'style': 'height: fit-content; list-style: none;'})

Thank you!, This is a big help