How to create password input field in django

Question

Hi I am using the django model class with some field and a password field. Instead of displaying regular plain text I want to display password input. I created a model class

Answer 1

Since this question was asked a couple years ago, and it is well indexed on search results, this answer might help some people coming here with the same problem but be using a more recent Django version.

I'm using Django 1.11 but it should work for Django 2.0 as well.

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Taking into account that you using a model user I will assume that you are using the default User() model from Django.

Since the User() model already has a password field, we can just add a widget to it.

from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.models import User

# also, it will work with a custom user model if needed.
# from .models import User


class UserRegistrationForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ['username', 'password']

        widgets = {
            # telling Django your password field in the mode is a password input on the template
            'password': forms.PasswordInput() 
        }

Check the docs

I'm fairly new to Django, if my answer was not accurate enough, please let us know, I'd be happy to edit it later on.