Widgets provide a way to Package HTML, CSS and JavaScript into reusable components.
Widgets are shared between all incoming requests, so they should be stateless.
Widget params can be given defaults at instantiation time, values at render time, or they can be assigned a callable which will be run automatically at render time to get the proper value.
TurboGears provides a form widget which handles displaying its own validation errors.
TurboGears form widgets integrate with FormEncode to handle validation.
FormWidget makes it easy to create your own Validators by subclassing FancyValidator.
The FormWidget is a special case of the more general CompoundWidget, which you can use to create nested widget structures of your own.
CSSLink and JSLink provide a simple way to make sure that your pages only download the necessary files once, even if dozens or hundreds of widgets on your page include links to the same files.
Widgets are customizable by overriding attributes, or by subclassing.
The code for the AutoComplete widget shows how easy it is to integrate Java-Script, HTML, and CSS into a single reusable component.
Widgets are view technology, so Ajax widgets interact with controller methods that handle user actions. The AutoComplete widget shows a simple example of how that works.
