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

With Django >= 1.7 your must modify ContactForm.base_fields as below:

from collections import OrderedDict

...

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    ...

ContactForm.base_fields = OrderedDict(
    (k, ContactForm.base_fields[k])
    for k in ['your', 'field', 'in', 'order']
)

This trick is used in Django Admin PasswordChangeForm: Source on Github