After writing about sweetening URLFields on Django admin forms, I got to thinking, why not subclass ModelAdmin instead? It works!
from django.contrib import admin class LocalModelAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): class Media: js = ( 'js/tinymce/tiny_mce.js', 'js/init/tinymce_advanced.js', 'js/init/url_features.js', )
admin.py:
from path.to.module import LocalModelAdmin class MyModelAdmin(LocalModelAdmin): ...
MyModel list and add/change forms now get the js files from LocalModelAdmin.