How to Create a form using Django Forms (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 26 May, 2025

This article explains how to create a basic form using various form fields and attributes. Creating a form in Django is very similar to creating a model, you define the fields you want and specify their types. **For example, a registration form might need fields like First Name (**CharField), Roll Number (**IntegerField), and so on.

Syntax:

Field_name = forms.FieldType(attributes)

Now to render this form into a view, move to views.py and create a **home_view as below.

Example: Creating a Django Form

Consider a project named **geeksforgeeks with an app called **geeks.

Refer to the following articles to check how to create a project and an app in Django.

• How to Create a Basic Project using MVT in Django?
• How to Create an App in Django ?

Step 1: Create the Form Class

Inside your app directory, create a file called forms.py where you will define all your forms. Use Django’s **forms.Form class to create a form.

In **forms.py, add the following code:

Python `

from django import forms

class InputForm(forms.Form): first_name = forms.CharField(max_length=200) last_name = forms.CharField(max_length=200) roll_number = forms.IntegerField(help_text="Enter 6 digit roll number") password = forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput())

`

Let's explain what exactly is happening, left side denotes the name of the field and to the right of it, you define various functionalities of an input field correspondingly. A field's syntax is denoted as

Step 2: Render the Form in a View

In your app’s views.py, import the form and create a view to render it:

Python `

from django.shortcuts import render from .forms import InputForm

Create your views here.

def home_view(request): context ={} context['form']= InputForm() return render(request, "home.html", context)

`

Here, an instance of the form is created and passed to the template context.

Step 3: Display the Form in a Template

Create or edit the home.html template inside your templates folder and add the following:

HTML `

`

Now, visit http://localhost:8000/ to see your form rendered.

Improving Form Display

The default form rendering (****{{ form }}**) is functional but basic. Django provides convenient methods to change the form layout:

• ****{{ form.as_table }}:** renders the form fields wrapped in table rows
• ****{{ form.as_p }}:** renders form fields inside

  tags

• ****{{ form.as_ul }}:** renders form fields inside
• list items

Customizing Individual Fields

You can render individual fields separately using:

{{ form.first_name }}

{{ form.last_name }}

**Note: When rendering fields manually, make sure to handle validation and errors properly, and always include CSRF tokens in your form. Otherwise, you risk breaking Django’s built-in form validation.