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diff --git a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md index 869bdc16..b434efe9 100644 --- a/docs/api-guide/renderers.md +++ b/docs/api-guide/renderers.md @@ -217,6 +217,14 @@ Renders data into HTML for the Browsable API. This renderer will determine whic **.charset**: `utf-8` +#### Customizing BrowsableAPIRenderer + +By default the response content will be rendered with the highest priority renderer apart from `BrowseableAPIRenderer`. If you need to customize this behavior, for example to use HTML as the default return format, but use JSON in the browsable API, you can do so by overriding the `get_default_renderer()` method. For example: + + class CustomBrowsableAPIRenderer(BrowsableAPIRenderer): + def get_default_renderer(self, view): + return JSONRenderer() + ## MultiPartRenderer This renderer is used for rendering HTML multipart form data. **It is not suitable as a response renderer**, but is instead used for creating test requests, using REST framework's [test client and test request factory][testing]. |