Django form set placeholder in CharField instead of value

Asked Aug 12 '21 at 08:49

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Suppose I have a following simple form:

class UserForm(Form):
    first_name = CharField(label='First Name')
    last_name = CharField(label='Last Name')

And there is some custom validation.

When a user submitted invalid data, Django renders the form with invalid values inside the fields.

Is it possible to render empty CharFields but with placeholders that show the entered data?

asked Aug 12 '21 at 08:49

Paul R

How are you rendering the form in the template? – Tom Hamilton Stubber Aug 12 '21 at 08:51
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See [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4101258/how-do-i-add-a-placeholder-on-a-charfield-in-django) link here. It have nice way of doing what you asked. – sumit subedi Aug 12 '21 at 11:53
@sumitsubedi, thank you. But how do I get the field value? – Paul R Aug 13 '21 at 15:16
You can dynamically change the placeholder value of form while sending it from views.py as: form.fields['first_name'].widget.attrs['placeholder'] = value – sumit subedi Aug 14 '21 at 08:22

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