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

The other methods are all good. However, if you prefer to not specify the field (e.g. for some dynamic method), you can use this:

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    super(MyForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
    self.fields['email'].widget.attrs['placeholder'] = self.fields['email'].label or 'email@address.nl'

It also allows the placeholder to depend on the instance for ModelForms with instance specified.