Question

Say I have this simple form:

class ContactForm(forms.Form):     first_name = forms.CharField(required=True)     last_name = forms.CharField(required=True) 

And I have a default value for one field but not the other. So I set it up like this:

default_data = {'first_name','greg'} form1=ContactForm(default_data) 

However now when I go to display it, Django shows a validation error saying last_name is required:

print form1.as_table() 

What is the correct way to do this? Since this isn’t data the user has submitted, just data I want to prefill.

Note: required=False will not work because I do want it required when the user submits the data. Just when I’m first showing the form on the page, I won’t have a default value.

Answer 1

Form constructor has initial param that allows to provide default values for fields.