FormTemplateLogic.md

Form Template Logic

In order to make decisions in template logic based on form field class, input type and so on, install django-widget-tweaks and use its template filters (as well as the input_type property since Django 1.11):

forms.py:

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(
        max_length=150,
        required=True,
        label='Your name'
    )

template.html:

{% load widget_tweaks %}

{% for field in form.visible_fields %}
{{ field.label }}
{{ field.field.widget.input_type }}
{{ field|field_type }}
{{ field|widget_type }})
{% endfor %}

Result:

Your name
text
charfield
textinput

If you need to capture the output of one of these filters for use in if statements, you can use the with template tag.

Since Django 3.1, there's also the widget_type field attribute:

{% for field in form %}
    {% if field.widget_type == 'checkbox' %}
        # render one way
    {% else %}
        # render another way
    {% endif %}
{% endfor %}