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 }}
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Answer 1

I hope you do have a forms.py file in your project. While creating your form, you can use following to set placeholder for your fields:

username = forms.CharField(label='username', 
                widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'placeholder': 'username'}))

If you have ModelForm in your project you can implement as:

 class MyForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = User
        widgets = {
            'username': forms.TextInput(attrs={'placeholder': 'username'}),
             ..........
        }