Django password change view form

Question

I'm still new to Django and have a few questions on how using built in views work. I noticed that djang comes with a built in password change view at django.contrib.auth.views.password_change. This view shows the admin site in the background of the template, while I want to provide my own css/template but keep the form and functionality of that view. How would I do this? Can you pass something into the urls.py

r'password_change/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_change')

like a custom template? I am unsure of the proper way to do this.

Answer 1

You can specify the template that should be used by setting the template_name argument:

(r'password_change/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_change', {'template_name': 'path/to/password_reset.html'})

In your template make sure you use the provided {{ form }} template variable and you're good to go.

Answer 2

Django will attempt to load templates first from your application, then fall back. So, to override the templates for contrib.auth, you just need to:

1. Create a directory named auth in your template directory.
2. Create a template of the same name that the built-in view is expecting to load.
3. There is no step 3.