How do I add a placeholder on a CharField in Django?

Question

Take this very simple form for example:

class SearchForm(Form):
    q = forms.CharField(label=\'search\')

This gets rendered in the templat

Answer 1

Look at the widgets documentation. Basically it would look like:

q = forms.CharField(label='search', 
                    widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'placeholder': 'Search'}))

More writing, yes, but the separation allows for better abstraction of more complicated cases.

You can also declare a widgets attribute containing a => mapping directly on the Meta of your ModelForm sub-class.