Display asterisks for required fields in template

Davo — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:44:51 +0000

If you want to display simple asterisks (*) for required fields in Django then the following code is for you.
The trick is to access the field properties inside the template and make a conditional statement.
Here is a simple example of view and template:

# this is inside your views.py
def do_something(request):
      """Display simple form"""
      form = MyForm() # this will be used in the template.
      return render_to_response('template.html', locals())

# this is inside your template.html

   {% for field in form %}
      {{ field }} {% if field.field.required %}(*){% endif %}
   {% endfor %}

The locals() function is a built in python function

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Display asterisks for required fields in template