Get the type of field in django template

Question

I am using django forms and I want to use Twitter Bootstrap's css in my html. so my template looks like this:

{% for field in form %}     <div class="form-group">         {{ field.label_tag }}<!--Same thing as : <label for="{{field.id_for_label}}"></label> -->          <input type="{{field.type}}" class="form-control" id="{{field.auto_id}}" placeholder="Email">       </div> {% endfor %} 

I can't figure out out to get the type value. {{field.type}} .

Is there any way to get the type of the input field in django templates?

Thanks in advance

Update: The reason I am asking this question is because I want to be able to apply bootstrap classes to the input element. But in Bootstrap3, to use the default css for input types you would have to add form-control class to the input element like so: <input type="text" class="form-control" id="{{field.auto_id}}" placeholder="">.

If I use django's field {{field}} then I can't add the form-control class. I hope this clarifies some things.

I also saw this app https://github.com/dyve/django-bootstrap3 that looks like it does what I wanted to do. It surprises me that django doesn't allow accessing the form type to allow more flexibility.

Answer 1

According to https://stackoverflow.com/a/31538555/254553

You can use:

{{ [FIELD].field.widget.input_type }} 

[FIELD] is your field name.

Answer 2

I don't think you need to worry about the field_type. Django will itself handle that for you depending on the form field.

Lets say we have a ContactForm like:

class ContactForm(forms.Form):     subject = forms.CharField(max_length=100)     message = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea)     sender = forms.EmailField()     cc_myself = forms.BooleanField(required=False) 

Then {{form.subject}} will automatically create <input> element in the template.

<input id="id_subject" type="text" name="subject" maxlength="100" /> 

Similarly, {{form.message}} in the template will create:

<input type="text" name="message" id="id_message" /> 

Though if you really need to get the form field type in the template, you can create a custom template filter like below.

from django import template  register = template.Library()  @register.filter(name='field_type') def field_type(field):     return field.field.widget.__class__.__name__ 

Now, in your template, you need to do something like:

{{form.field_name|field_type}} 

In the above example, {{form.message|field_type}} will return TextInput.