Django: How to check if field widget is checkbox in the template?

Question

I\'ve created a custom template for rendering form fields:

    
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Answer 1

It is kind of late to answer, but I implemented something similar to what is done in Django's admin.

First, I added a new attribute is_checkbox to the Field class:

# forms.py
from django import forms
from django.forms.fields import Field
setattr(Field, 'is_checkbox', lambda self: isinstance(self.widget, forms.CheckboxInput ))

Then, I can easily detect a CheckboxInput widget in the template. Here is an example to render checkboxes to the left and other widgets to the right:

{% if field.field.is_checkbox %}
    {{ field }} {{ field.label_tag }}
{% else %}
    {{ field.label }} {{ field }}
{% endif %}