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

Most of the time I just wish to have all placeholders equal to the verbose name of the field defined in my models

I've added a mixin to easily do this to any form that I create,

class ProductForm(PlaceholderMixin, ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Product
        fields = ('name', 'description', 'location', 'store')

And

class PlaceholderMixin:
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        field_names = [field_name for field_name, _ in self.fields.items()]
        for field_name in field_names:
            field = self.fields.get(field_name)
            field.widget.attrs.update({'placeholder': field.label})