Question

Introspection tells me that django fields have a “hidden_widget” attribute. Maybe its not this attribute’s given purpose, but its mere existence tempts me to use it in a template to conditionally render a hidden widget.
e.g.,

{% if some condition %} 
   {{ form.my_field }} 
{% else %} 
   {{ form.my_field.hidden_widget }} 
{% endif %}

But this doesn’t work. Is it possible to use the hidden widget this way? What am I missing?

I realize I could do this by dynamically setting the widget in the init of my custom Form class based on some custom kwarg for the conditional, which I pass in to it, but the above solution (dynamically rendering the hidden widget in the template) would be way simpler, if its available.

Answer 1

I was close, but using the wrong function. The answer, for those who are interested, is:

{{ form.my_field.as_hidden }}