In a Django form, how do I make a field readonly (or disabled) so that it cannot be edited?

Question

In a Django form, how do I make a field read-only (or disabled)?

When the form is being used to create a new entry, all fields should be enabled - but when the recor

Answer 1

I've just created the simplest possible widget for a readonly field - I don't really see why forms don't have this already:

class ReadOnlyWidget(widgets.Widget):
    """Some of these values are read only - just a bit of text..."""
    def render(self, _, value, attrs=None):
        return value

In the form:

my_read_only = CharField(widget=ReadOnlyWidget())

Very simple - and gets me just output. Handy in a formset with a bunch of read only values. Of course - you could also be a bit more clever and give it a div with the attrs so you can append classes to it.

Answer 2

For django 1.9+
You can use Fields disabled argument to make field disable. e.g. In following code snippet from forms.py file , I have made employee_code field disabled

class EmployeeForm(forms.ModelForm):
    employee_code = forms.CharField(disabled=True)
    class Meta:
        model = Employee
        fields = ('employee_code', 'designation', 'salary')

Reference https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#disabled