[css] CSS styling in Django forms

Edit: Another (slightly better) way of doing what I'm suggesting is answered here: Django form input field styling

All the above options are awesome, just thought I'd throw in this one because it's different.

If you want custom styling, classes, etc. on your forms, you can make an html input in your template that matches your form field. For a CharField, for example, (default widget is TextInput), let's say you want a bootstrap-looking text input. You would do something like this:

<input type="text" class="form-control" name="form_field_name_here">

And as long as you put the form field name matches the html name attribue, (and the widget probably needs to match the input type as well) Django will run all the same validators on that field when you run validate or form.is_valid() and

Styling other things like labels, error messages, and help text don't require much workaround because you can do something like form.field.error.as_text and style them however you want. The actual fields are the ones that require some fiddling.

I don't know if this is the best way, or the way I would recommend, but it is a way, and it might be right for someone.

Here's a useful walkthrough of styling forms and it includes most of the answers listed on SO (like using the attr on the widgets and widget tweaks). https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/article/2017/08/19/how-to-render-django-form-manually.html

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