Question

How to prevent Django from auto-capitalizing of the verbose_name in models? E.g:

class TestModel(models.Model):
    enb_id = models.IntegerField(null=True, verbose_name="eNB ID", blank=True)

I want to handle the capitalization myself and display “eNB ID” instead of “ENB ID” anywhere on the site.

Answer 1

It seems like the simple workaround for this is adding a whitespace at the beginning of verbose_name. Function that performs the capitalization (capfirst) changes only the first letter. If it is a whitespace nothing will be changed. Because web browsers ignore consecutive whitespaces everything will be displayed correctly.

class TestModel(models.Model):
    enb_id = models.IntegerField(null=True, verbose_name=" eNB ID", blank=True)

    class Meta:
        verbose_name = " test model"