django add placeholder text to form field

Question

In Django I have the below code which is creating a username and password form on an HTML Page:

    {{ form.username }}
&         


        
      

Answer 1

You must use the placeholder properties

class LoginForm(forms.Form):
    username = forms.CharField(label='username')
    password = forms.CharField(label='password')


    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(LoginForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['username'].widget.attrs['placeholder'] = 'username'
        self.fields['password '].widget.attrs['placeholder'] = 'password'

or

class LoginForm(forms.Form):
    username = forms.CharField(label='username',widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'placeholder':'username'}))
    password = forms.CharField(label='password',widget=forms.PasswordInput(attrs={'placeholder':'password'}))