How does Django Know the Order to Render Form Fields?

Question

If I have a Django form such as:

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    subject = forms.CharField(max_length=100)
    message = forms.CharField()
    sender = fo         


        

Answer 1

Fields are listed in the order they are defined in ModelClass._meta.fields. But if you want to change order in Form, you can do by using keyOrder function. For example :

class ContestForm(ModelForm):
  class Meta:
    model = Contest
    exclude=('create_date', 'company')

  def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    super(ContestForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
    self.fields.keyOrder = [
        'name',
        'description',
        'image',
        'video_link',
        'category']