how can I change the modelform label and give it a custom name

Question

I want to create a custom name for on of the labels in my modelform this is my forms.py

class PostForm(forms.ModelForm):
    body = forms.CharField(widget=Pa         


        

Answer 1

Yes, you can. Simply use the label argument:

class PostForm(forms.ModelForm):
    ...
    video = forms.FileField(label='embed')

or define it inside your Meta class:

class PostForm(forms.ModelForm):
    ...
    class Meta:
        ...
        labels = {
            "video": "embed"
            ...
        }

Answer 2

From the documentation:

You can specify the labels, help_texts and error_messages attributes of the inner Meta class if you want to further customize a field.

There are examples just below that section of the docs. So, you can do:

class Meta:
    model = Post
    labels = {
        "video": "Embed"
    }

Answer 3

class Meta:

    model = Book
    fields = ('title', 'publication_date', 'author', 'price', 'pages','book_type',)
    labels  = {
        'title':'Titulo', 
        'publication_date':'Data de Publicação', 
        'author':'Autor', 
        'price':'Preço', 
        'pages':'Número de Páginas',
        'book_type':'Formato'
        }
    widgets = {
        'title': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'form-control'}),
        'publication_date': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'form-control'}),
        'author': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'form-control'}),
        'price': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'form-control'}),
        'pages': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'form-control'}),
        'book_type': forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'form-control'}),
    } 

Answer 4

An easy way to achieve this without editing the form would be to change the verbose_name on the model. For the video field on your model you could change the label on the form from "video" to "embed" like so:

class Post(models.Model)
    video = models.UrlField(verbose_name="embed")
    # Other fields