Django Admin - Overriding the widget of a custom form field

Question

I have a custom TagField form field.

class TagField(forms.CharField):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(TagField, self).__init__(*args,          


        

Answer 1

Try to change your field like this:

class TagField(forms.CharField):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        self.widget = forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'tag_field'})
        super(TagField, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

This would allow to use the widget which comes from **kwargs. Otherwise your field will always use form.TextInput widget.