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

You can make every view that manages forms inherit from a custom generic view where you load into the context the metadata that you need in the templates. The generic form view should include something like this:

class CustomUpdateView(UpdateView):
    ...
    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
       context = super().get_context_data(**kwargs)
       ...
       for f, value in context["form"].fields.items():
          context["form"].fields[f].type = self.model._meta.get_field(f).get_internal_type()
       ...
       return context

In the template you can access these custom properties through field.field:

{% if field.field.type == 'BooleanField' %}
     

     ...
     
{% endif %}

By using the debugger of PyCharm or Visual Studio Code you can see all the available metadata, if you need something else besides the field type.