ADDING AUTOCOMPLETE, AUTOFOCUS, PLACEHOLDER AND OTHER ATTRIBUTES TO DJANGO FORMS

In HTML its easy to give just an attribute to a tag to set autofocus or autocomplete on/off. In Django forms the way around is a little different from the traditional way.

In HTML you can set a placeholder like

<input name = "name" placeholder = "Awais Ali" type = "text" />

So in Django you can do this by

self.fields['Name'].widget.attrs['autofocus']  = 'on'

You can also assign auto-complete in a similar fashion

self.fields['Name'].widget.attrs['autofocus']  = 'off'

Similarly place-holder can be set like this

self.fields['Name'].widget.attrs['placeholder']  = u'Your Name'

This can also be set using  dictionary by giving key, value like this

self.fields['Name'].widget.attrs({'placeholder':'Your Name'}) 

So over-all if you want every field to have some property or value then here is the code how to do it

 def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(LoginForm,self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['username'].widget.attrs['autocomplete'] = 'off'
        self.fields['username'].widget.attrs['autofocus'] = 'on'
        self.fields['password'].widget.attrs['autocomplete'] = 'off'
 
    username = forms.CharField(label=_("Username"), max_length=30, widget=forms.TextInput())
    password = forms.CharField(label=_("Password"), widget=forms.PasswordInput(render_value=False))

So after putting this code in your forms.py you would achieve the required functionality. Similarly you can go on adding HTML attributes form here whatever you like to add for example:
read-only, disabled, multiple etc.

Feel free to ask if you have any queries in the comment below.