I have just gotten into Django and read a bunch of books, now im building my first app. When I render my forms in my template im using…
{{ form.as_ul }}
And now I’m trying to apply some CSS to my form. It’s proving difficult to get it look nice. I was wondering if there is a better way of rendering and styling forms?
Best answer
Well, there are a couple of options that you can take advantage of like:
form.as_p
form.as_ul
form.as_table
Its up to you to decide what you would like. As for customizing it with CSS, take a look at how they structured the form here (taken from django docs):
<form action="/contact/" method="post">
{{ form.non_field_errors }}
<div class="fieldWrapper">
{{ form.subject.errors }}
<label for="id_subject">Email subject:</label>
{{ form.subject }}
</div>
<div class="fieldWrapper">
{{ form.message.errors }}
<label for="id_message">Your message:</label>
{{ form.message }}
</div>
<div class="fieldWrapper">
{{ form.sender.errors }}
<label for="id_sender">Your email address:</label>
{{ form.sender }}
</div>
<div class="fieldWrapper">
{{ form.cc_myself.errors }}
<label for="id_cc_myself">CC yourself?</label>
{{ form.cc_myself }}
</div>
<p><input type="submit" value="Send message" /></p>
</form>
The original form looked like this:
from django import forms
class ContactForm(forms.Form):
subject = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
message = forms.CharField()
sender = forms.EmailField()
cc_myself = forms.BooleanField(required=False)
So, as you can see, you can just access the form element, by
{{ form.<element_name>.<element_properties> }}
You can add your own CSS to the label
s or div
s. Its totally up to you to decide what you want to do. On a side note, if you want forms formatted with Bootstrap 3, then might I suggest that you use django-crispyforms
extension for django.