Rendering a value as text instead of field inside a Django Form

Question

Is there a simple way to make Django render {{myform.name}} as

John Smith

instead of

<input id="id_name" name="name" value="John Smith" />

inside <form> tags? Or am I going about this the wrong way?

Answer 1

<form>
    {% for field in form %}
            {{ field.label }}: {{ field.value }}
    {% endfor %}
</form>

Take a look here Form fields and Working with forms

Answer 2

Old topic, but I think some people still comes here.

You can do something like this too:

from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe

class PlainTextWidget(forms.Widget):
    def render(self, _name, value, _attrs):
        return mark_safe(value) if value is not None else '-'

And in your form

class SomeForm(Form):
   somename = forms.CharField(widget=PlainTextWidget)

Under Django 2.1+ you'll need the following:

from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe

class PlainTextWidget(forms.Widget):
    def render(self, name, value, attrs=None, renderer=None):
        return mark_safe(value) if value is not None else '-'