Initial Form Data
Let’s learn how to put initial form data into a form.
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Setting up initial form data
Every once in a while, we might want to initialize our form with some data, that is, data that is already filled in. Doing so is not the same as a placeholder. Rather, we would use actual data that is present on default. Therefore, if the users don’t change the values, the data would be sent to the server-side as-it-is.
In this lesson, we will discuss two different methods to place some initial data in a form.
First method
In this first method, we can actually provide initial data in the views.py
file, and it will come in as a dictionary. First, we make the following dictionary:
inital_dict={
"text": "Some initial data",
"integer": 123,
}
In the snippet given above, initial_dict
is the name of the dictionary, and text and integer are the names of our form_fields.
Now we just need to pass this dictionary in our form:
form = TestForm( request.POST or None,initial=inital_dict)
In the example above, initial
is the keyword used to put the initial data into a form.
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