Question

Within my model I have defined a required field class like this:

class Contact(models.Model):
    last_name = models.CharField(_(u"Last Name"), max_length=50)

For the form I am simply using the ModelForm to keep it simple:

class ContactsForm(ModelForm):
   class Meta:
        model = Contact

I understand there are third-party-mods helping with rendering forms, however going plain for now to see when I hit the limitations, so I tried this:

            <tr>
                <td>
                    {{form.last_name.label}}:
                </td>
                <td>
                    {{form.last_name}}
                    {% if  form.last_name.required %}(*){% endif %}
                </td>
            </tr>

Surprisingly I don’t get to see the (*) even though its a required field.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

I can’t test this now, but I’m pretty sure you need form.last_name.field.required – form.last_name is an instance of BoundField, and it has a field property which points to the original CharField, which in turn contains the required property.