How to Customize Widgets in Django Forms
When working with Django forms, one of the first things you'll want to do is customize how your form fields look and behave. Whether it's adding CSS classes, placeholders, or changing the type of input, Django gives you multiple ways to tweak widgets. In this article, we'll walk through how to customize widgets in two scenarios: A plain vanilla form (based on forms.Form) A model form (based on forms.ModelForm) Let’s dive in.

When working with Django forms, one of the first things you'll want to do is customize how your form fields look and behave. Whether it's adding CSS classes, placeholders, or changing the type of input, Django gives you multiple ways to tweak widgets.
In this article, we'll walk through how to customize widgets in two scenarios:
- A plain vanilla form (based on
forms.Form
) - A model form (based on
forms.ModelForm
)
Let’s dive in.