How to make a Django admin readonly textarea field

Question

In Django admin, if I have a model field that's a TextField and set it as readonly using readonly_fields, then it's displayed as text in a <p> tag.

I'd like it to still be displayed as a textarea field, but with its disabled attribute set.

What's the simplest way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

use a form field

   somefield = forms.CharField(
       widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'readonly':'readonly'})
    )