Django forms are an advanced set of HTML forms that can be created using python and support all features of HTML forms in a pythonic way. Rendering Django Forms in the template may seem messy at times but with proper knowledge of Django Forms and attributes of fields, one can easily create excellent Form with all powerful features. In this article, Form is rendered as list in the template.
{{ form.as_ul }} – Render Django Forms as list
Illustration of {{ form.as_ul }} using an Example. Consider a project named geeksforgeeks having an app named geeks.
Let’s create a sample Django Form to render it and show as an example. In geeks > forms.py, enter following code
- Python3
from django import forms
# creating a form
class InputForm(forms.Form):
first_name = forms.CharField(max_length = 200)
last_name = forms.CharField(max_length = 200)
roll_number = forms.IntegerField(
help_text = "Enter 6 digit roll number"
)
password = forms.CharField(widget = forms.PasswordInput())
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Now we need a View to render this form into a template. Let’s create a view,
- Python3
from django.shortcuts import render
from .forms import InputForm
# Create your views here.
def home_view(request):
context ={}
context['form']= InputForm()
return render(request, "home.html", context)
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Finally, we will create the template where we need the form to be placed. In templates > home.html,
- html
<form action = "" method = "post">
{% csrf_token %}
<ul>
{{ form.as_ul }}
</ul>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
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Here {{ form.as_ul }} will render them as list cells wrapped in <li> tags. Let’s check whether this is working accordingly or not. Open http://localhost:8000/ 
Let’s check the source code whether the form is rendered as a list or not. By rendering as a list it is meant , 