Django forms, inheritance and order of form fields

Question

I\'m using Django forms in my website and would like to control the order of the fields.

Here\'s how I define my forms:

class edit_form(forms.Form):
         


        

Answer 1

I built a form 'ExRegistrationForm' inherited from the 'RegistrationForm' from Django-Registration-Redux. I faced two issues, one of which was reordering the fields on the html output page once the new form had been created.

I solved them as follows:

1. ISSUE 1: Remove Username from the Registration Form: In my_app.forms.py

    class ExRegistrationForm(RegistrationForm):
          #Below 2 lines extend the RegistrationForm with 2 new fields firstname & lastname
          first_name = forms.CharField(label=(u'First Name'))
          last_name = forms.CharField(label=(u'Last Name'))

          #Below 3 lines removes the username from the fields shown in the output of the this form
          def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
          super(ExRegistrationForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
          self.fields.pop('username')

2. ISSUE 2: Make FirstName and LastName appear on top: In templates/registration/registration_form.html

You can individually display the fields in the order that you want. This would help in case the number of fields are less, but not if you have a large number of fields where it becomes practically impossible to actually write them in the form.

     {% extends "base.html" %}
     {% load i18n %}

     {% block content %}
     

          {% csrf_token %}

          #The Default html is: {{ form.as_p }} , which can be broken down into individual elements as below for re-ordering.
          
First Name: {{ form.first_name }}
          
Last Name:  {{ form.last_name }}
          
Email: {{ form.email }}
          
Password: {{ form.password1 }}
          
Confirm Password: {{ form.password2 }}

          
      
      {% endblock %}