Question

I have the following form:

from django import forms    
class PostForm(forms.Form):
    message = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea)

and the following part in my template

<p>{{ form.message }}</p>

it renders the field as a textarea as specified. Though for the template I want to set it to 4 rows and 25 cols without actually touching the form definiton. Is that possible?

Answer 1

class PostForm(forms.Form):
     message = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea)

    def set4x25(self):
        self.fields['message'].widget.attrs = {'rows':'4', 'cols': '25'}

And in template:

{{ form.set4x25 }}
{{ form.message }}

You can customize this idea as you like.