Question

How do I get rid of the Null choice in a select dropdown? For example, I have the following model —

class Network(models.Model):
    type = models.CharField(max_length=10, choices = [('closed','closed'),('open','open')])

When I use the form in the template, I get three choices in the dropdown:

-------
Closed
Open

How do I get rid of this Null choice? So the select dropdown will only have the Closed and Open options?

Answer 1

From the documentation (via):

By default the widget used by ModelChoiceField will have an
empty choice at the top of the list. You can change the text of this
label (which is “———” by default) with the empty_label
attribute, or you can disable the empty label entirely by setting
empty_label to None