Rendering a value as text instead of field inside a Django Form

Question

Is there a simple way to make Django render {{myform.name}} as

John Smith

instead of

<input id="id_name" name="name" value="John Smith" />

inside <form> tags? Or am I going about this the wrong way?

Answer 1

<form>
    {% for field in form %}
            {{ field.label }}: {{ field.initial }}
    {% endfor %}
</form>

Take a look here Form fields and Working with forms

Answer 2

You can also use a new widget: I did this so that I could have a widget that created a text display of a date, and a hidden form with the same date in it, so it could be visible to the user, but they cannot change it.

Here is an initial (still testing/to be cleaned up) version:

class DayLabelWidget(forms.Widget):
    def render(self, name, value, attrs):
        final_attrs = self.build_attrs(attrs, name=name)
        if hasattr(self, 'initial'):
            value = self.initial
        if type(value) == type(u''):
            value = datetime.date(*map(int, value.split('-')))
        return mark_safe(
            "%s" % value.strftime("%A (%d %b %Y)")
        ) + mark_safe(
            "<input type='hidden' name='%s' value='%s' />" % (
                name, value
            )
        )

    def _has_changed(self, initial, data):
        return False

You then use this in the field as (widget=DayLabelWidget,).

Answer 3

Also, don't forget you can also do {{myform.instance.name}}

Answer 4

Why not use {{ field.data }} ?

Answer 5

I think this is what you want: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10427

I patched my django and voila...