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Jake Rankin
Jake Rankin

Reputation: 744

How can I assign attributes to form elements in forms.py without using class Meta?

I have a django form setup like so:

from django import forms

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    full_name = forms.CharField(max_length=20)
    phone = forms.CharField(max_length=20)
    email = forms.CharField(max_length=30)
    message = forms.CharField(max_length=400)

    class Meta:
        fields = ['full_name', 'phone', 'email', 'message']

        widgets = {
        'full_name': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'sizefull s-text7 p-l-22 p-r-22', 'placeholder': 'Full Name'}),
        'phone': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'sizefull s-text7 p-l-22 p-r-22', 'placeholder': 'Phone Number'}),
        'email': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'sizefull s-text7 p-l-22 p-r-22', 'placeholder': 'E-Mail Address'}),
        'message': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'dis-block s-text7 size20 bo4 p-l-22 p-r-22 p-t-13 m-b-20', 'placeholder': 'Message'}),
        }

Which works fine. However, I recently learned that class Meta can only be used with ModelForms.

I need to assign attributes like the above in my form, in forms.py. I understand it is bad practice to mix business and presentation logic, but I am dealing with a complicated paid web template at the moment, and methods to apply attributes using template tags have not worked so far. Given I am on a deadline, I am postponing assigning attributes that way as a v2 feature.

My question is, if class Meta can only be used with forms that have a corresponding model, how can I assign attributes to form widgets in forms that do not correspond to a model and thus cannot use class Meta?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 50

Answers (1)

Hybrid
Hybrid

Reputation: 7049

You can use inline widgets.

An example used is as follows:

class CommentForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class': 'special'}))
    url = forms.URLField()
    comment = forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'size': '40'}))

Upvotes: 1

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