Custom Label in Django Formset

Question

How do I add custom labels to my formset?

<form method="post" action="">

    {{ formset.management_form }}
    {% for form in formset %}
        {% for field in form %}
            {{ field.label_tag }}: {{ field }}
        {% endfor %}
    {% endfor %}
</form>

My model is:

class Sing(models.Model):
song = models.CharField(max_length = 50)
band = models.CharField(max_length = 50)

Now in the template instead of the field label being 'song', how do i set it so that it shows up as 'What song are you going to sing?'?

Palila

What do you mean by "custom labels"? How should they look? Where should they be displayed? What's the point of that template extract? – Poriferous

sorrt for being unclear. view edits? – Palila

Answer 1

You can use the label argument in your form:

class MySingForm(forms.Form):
    song = forms.CharField(label='What song are you going to sing?')
    ...

If you are using ModelForms:

class MySingForm(forms.ModelForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(MySingForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['song'].label = 'What song are you going to sing?'
  
    class Meta:
        model = Sing

Update:

(@Daniel Roseman's comment)

Or in the model (using verbose_name):

class Sing(models.Model):
    song = models.CharField(verbose_name='What song are you going to sing?',
                            max_length=50)
    ...

or

class Sing(models.Model):
    song = models.CharField('What song are you going to sing?', max_length=50)
    ...

Huh

i get TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'label' – Palila

label should be verbose_name, or just use the first positional argument. – Poriferous

Answer updated. label argument is used only with Form fields not Model fields (my mistake). Can you post your form definition so that I can give you a 100% working solution? – Huh

I was using ModelForm class SingForm(ModelForm): Class Meta: model = Sing – Palila

The solution with verbose_name in model field should do the trick. – Huh