How to render form field with information that it is required

Question

Is there any clever way to make django forms render field with asterisks after fields that are required? Or to provide some other clever for to mark required fields? I would

Answer 1

Personny I tried something like this, i.e. overriding the default template tag (this adds a red asterisk in all the admin interface for required not-readonly fields. Then i also defined a 2nd tag for my views that mix inline and block labels. See the code below (copy/paste of Django source code with some modifications):

In settings.py :

from django.forms.util import flatatt
from django.utils.html import conditional_escape
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
import django.forms.forms as django_forms
def custom_label_tag(self, contents=None, attrs=None):
        """
        Wraps the given contents in a , if the field has an ID attribute.
        Does not HTML-escape the contents. If contents aren't given, uses the
        field's HTML-escaped label.

        If attrs are given, they're used as HTML attributes on the  tag.
        """
        contents = contents or conditional_escape(self.label)
        widget = self.field.widget
        id_ = widget.attrs.get('id') or self.auto_id
        if id_:
            attrs = attrs and flatatt(attrs) or ''
            if self.field.required:
                label = unicode(contents)
                label_suffix = ""
                if label[-1] == ":":
                    label = label[:-1]
                    label_suffix += ":"
                contents = u'%s*%s' % (widget.id_for_label(id_), attrs, label, label_suffix)
            else:
                contents = u'%s' % (widget.id_for_label(id_), attrs, unicode(contents))
        return mark_safe(contents)

def custom_inline_label_tag(self, contents=None, attrs=None):
    if attrs:
        if "class" in attrs.keys():
            attrs["class"] += " inline"
        else:
            attrs["class"] = "inline"
    else:
        attrs = {"class": "inline"}
    return self.label_tag(contents, attrs)
django_forms.BoundField.label_tag = custom_label_tag # override django method
django_forms.BoundField.inline_label_tag = custom_inline_label_tag

In my templates

{{ form.fieldname.errors}}{{ form.fieldname.inline_label_tag }}{{form.fieldname}}
OR
{{ form.fieldname.errors}}{{ form.fieldname.label_tag }}{{form.fieldname}}