Sometimes, we want to override widget in a Python Django ModelForm.
In this article, we’ll look at how to override widget in a Python Django ModelForm.
How to override widget in a Python Django ModelForm?
To override widget in a Python Django ModelForm, we can set the widgets field to a dict with the field overrides.
For instance, we write
from django.forms import ModelForm, Textarea
from myapp.models import Author
class AuthorForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Author
fields = ('name', 'title', 'birth_date')
widgets = {
'name': Textarea(attrs={'cols': 80, 'rows': 20}),
}
to create the AuthorForm model form class with a few fields.
We set the widgets field to a dict with the name field overridden with a Textarea with 80 columns and 20 rows.
Conclusion
To override widget in a Python Django ModelForm, we can set the widgets field to a dict with the field overrides.
