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Imaxd
Imaxd

Reputation: 366

Django AuthenticationForm required fields

I need to add required class to a div element to render the fields of AuthenticationForm. But for a reason I can't understand, inside the template, form.password.required does not evaluate to True:

<div class="field {% if form.password.required %}required{% endif %}">
 {{ form.password.label_tag }}
 {{ form.password }}           
</div>

Problem is, when I instantiate a form manually

>>> from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm
>>> f = AuthenticationForm(None, {"password": "foo", "username":"bar"})
>>> f.is_valid()
>>> f.fields["password"].required # is true

Why isn't it true in the template ?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 159

Answers (1)

Iain Shelvington
Iain Shelvington

Reputation: 32244

form.password gives you a BoundField and not the password field itself, you need to use the field attribute of that BoundField to access the field and it's attributes

<div class="field {% if form.password.field.required %}required{% endif %}">

Upvotes: 1

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