Django Templates: Two Ways to Access Form Data

January 11th, 2010 posted by Bender Rodríguez

If it's a forms.ModelForm, and you instantiated it by passing an instance, you can access it like this:

If the form is bound (i.e. form.is_bound is true) then you can access
its data attribute, which contains the data entered into the form.

If the form is valid (i.e. form.is_valid() is true), then you can
access the cleaned_data attributes as well.

So for example if you have form like this:

f = MyForm({ "last_name": "some_value"})

you can access the value in template in this way

or alternatively, if your form is valid you can use:

The cleaned_data result might be different, however, due to some processing in the validation methods.

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