How do I hide the field label for a HiddenInput widget in Django Admin?

Question

I\'ve got a bit of Django form code that looks like this:

class GalleryAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):
    auto_id=False
    order = forms.CharField(widget=forms         


        

Answer 1

In theory, you should be able to pass label_suffix into the form constructor. However, the Django admin ignores this.

You've been bitten by two bugs in Django: #18134 'BoundField.label_tag should include form.label_suffix' (fixed in trunk, should be in 1.6) and to a lesser extent #11277 Hidden fields in Inlines are displayed as empty rows.

Currently, the best solution is to override the admin fieldset template. Use a HiddenInput for your widget, then override the admin fieldset template (documented here). Just create a templates/admin/includes/fieldset.html with the following contents:

    {% if fieldset.name %}
{{ fieldset.name }}
{% endif %}
    {% if fieldset.description %}
        
{{ fieldset.description|safe }}
    {% endif %}
    {% for line in fieldset %}
        

            {% if line.fields|length_is:'1' %}{{ line.errors }}{% endif %}
            {% for field in line %}
                
                    {% if not line.fields|length_is:'1' and not field.is_readonly %}{{ field.errors }}{% endif %}
                    {% if field.is_checkbox %}
                        {{ field.field }}{{ field.label_tag }}
                    {% else %}
                        {# only show the label for visible fields #}
                        {% if not field.field.is_hidden %}
                        {{ field.label_tag }}
                        {% endif %}

                        {% if field.is_readonly %}
                            
{{ field.contents }}
                        {% else %}
                            {{ field.field }}
                        {% endif %}
                    {% endif %}
                    {% if field.field.help_text %}
                        
{{ field.field.help_text|safe }}
                    {% endif %}
                
            {% endfor %}