Question

I’ve created a form that has many fields. In another view, I need to display the data that was entered in the form. Is there a simple way to reuse the form, but this time to display the data that was entered (i.e. as ‘readonly’)?

Answer 1

You could subclass your form and set all of the form widgets with the attribute disabled. Or set all of the fields to a widget that just renders text and no input box (like the django admin readonly widget).

class ReadOnlyForm(MyForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(ReadOnlyForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        for field in self.fields.values():
            field.widget.attrs['disabled'] = 'true' # or replace the widget
            # with one that just returns the value in plain html

readonly_form = ReadOnlyForm(the_data)