How to add a Delete button to django.forms generated form?

Question

How to add a Delete button to django.forms generated edit form (note, NOT admin)?

Its very easy to add a delete view on (/app/model/<id>/delete/ etc) but how to add a "Delete" button alongside the generated form?

I've got to be missing something easy?

Answer 1

Add a submit button to the template, set the name as 'delete', check in your view if it was clicked:

if request.POST.get('delete'):
    obj.delete()

Answer 2

You could use some generic form like this

class DeletableModelForm(forms.ModelForm):
    """
    Model form that allows you to delete the object
    """
    delete = forms.BooleanField(
        initial=False,
        help_text=_('Check this to delete this object')
    )

    def save(self, commit=True):
        if self.cleaned_data['delete']:
            return self.instance.delete()
        return super(DeletableModelForm, self).save()

And then you could restyle the checkbox to look like button. But you are probably better of with normal button with name...