Django tends to fill up horizontal space when adding or editing entries on the admin, but, in some cases, is a real waste of space, when, i.e., editing a date field, 8 chara
Same answer as msdin but with TextInput instead of TextArea:
from django.forms import TextInput class ShortTextField(models.TextField): def formfield(self, **kwargs): kwargs.update( {"widget": TextInput(attrs={'size': 10})} ) return super(ShortTextField, self).formfield(**kwargs)