Access form field attributes in templated Django

Question

I\'ve been doing some custom forms with django but I don\'t get how to access attributes that a specific form field has attached via the forms.py.

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Answer 1

In other cases it can can be useful to set and get field attributes.

Setting in form's init function:

self.fields['some_field'].widget.attrs['readonly'] = True

... and accessing it in a template:

{{ form.some_field.field.widget.attrs.readonly }}

Answer 2

It looks like you just want to display form errors for each field. After the form is cleaned or validated in the view, the fields should contain the error messages. So that you can display them in the template like so:

<form action='.' method='post'>
    ...
    <div class='a-field'>
       {{ form.field_1.errors|join:", " }}
       {{ form.field_1.label_tag }}
       {{ form.field_1 }}
    </div>
    ...
</form>

If however you really want to display the form field attributes then you can try something like:

{{ form.field_1.field.widget.attrs.maxlength }}