How to order the results of a ForeignKey relationship in a Django form?

Question

I have this models in Django

class Country(models.Model):     name = models.CharField(max_length=80)  class Person(models.Model):     first_name = models.CharField(max_length=100, db_index=True)     last_name = models.CharField(max_length=100, db_index=True)     country = models.ForeignKey(Country) 

and this ModelForm

class PersonForm(forms.ModelForm):      class Meta:         model = Person 

when I use this form in a template, everything works fine, but the country list in the <select> appears disordered. How can I order it?

Answer 1

You can use the ordering property:

class Country(models.Model):     name = models.CharField(max_length=80)      class Meta:         ordering = ["name"] 

If you set the ordering to the Country class, it shall display them as you want.