Django adding placeholders to django built in login forms

Question

I\'m using django built-in login forms and i want to add placeholders to username and password.

My template:

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Answer 1

save this content in forms.py

from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm
from django.forms.widgets import PasswordInput, TextInput


class CustomAuthForm(AuthenticationForm):
    username = forms.CharField(widget=TextInput(attrs={'class':'validate','placeholder': 'Email'}))
    password = forms.CharField(widget=PasswordInput(attrs={'placeholder':'Password'}))

in your main urls.py (where your login view called)

from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
from app.forms import CustomAuthForm

urlpatterns = [
url(r'^login/$', auth_views.login, name='login', kwargs={"authentication_form":CustomAuthForm}),
]

the extra thing that we done here is added an kwargs kwargs={"authentication_form":CustomAuthForm}

please use this for your future reference django.contrib.auth.views.LoginView and django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm