Get type of Django form widget from within template

Question

I\'m iterating through the fields of a form and for certain fields I want a slightly different layout, requiring altered HTML.

To do this accurately, I just need to

Answer 1

Perhaps worth pointing out to contemporary readers that django-widget-tweaks provides field_type and widget_type template filters for this purpose, returning the respective class names in lowercase. In the example below I also show the output of the input_type property on the field widget (since Django 1.11), which may also be useful.

forms.py:

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(
        max_length=150,
        required=True,
        label='Your name'
    )

template.html:

{% load widget_tweaks %}

{% for field in form.visible_fields %}
{{ field.label }}
{{ field.field.widget.input_type }}
{{ field|field_type }}
{{ field|widget_type }})
{% endfor %}

Result:

Your name
text
charfield
textinput

Between these various options you should be able to find the right property to target for just about any use-case. If you need to capture the output of one of these filters for use in if statements, you can use the with template tag.