Probably a poor question, but I'm using Django's UserCreationForm (slightly modified to include email), and I would like to remove the help_text that Django automatically displays on the HTML page.
On the Register portion of my HTML page, it has the Username, Email, Password1 & Password 2 fields. But underneath Username is "Required. 30 characters or fewer. Letters, digits, and @... only." And under Password Confirmation (Password 2), it says "Enter the same password as above for verification."
How do I remove these?
#models.py
class UserCreateForm(UserCreationForm):
email = forms.EmailField(required=True)
def save(self, commit=True):
user = super(UserCreateForm, self).save(commit=False)
user.email = self.cleaned_data['email']
if commit:
user.save()
return user
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ("username", "email", "password1", "password2")
exclude = ('username.help_text')
#views.py
def index(request):
r = Movie.objects.all().order_by('-pub_date')
form = UserCreateForm()
return render_to_response('qanda/index.html', {'latest_movie_list': r, 'form':form}, context_instance = RequestContext(request))
#index.html
<form action = "/home/register/" method = "post" id = "register">{% csrf_token %}
<h6> Create an account </h6>
{{ form.as_p }}
<input type = "submit" value = "Create!">
<input type = "hidden" name = "next" value = "{{ next|escape }}" />
</form>
You can set help_text
of fields to None in __init__
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
from django import forms
class UserCreateForm(UserCreationForm):
email = forms.EmailField(required=True)
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(UserCreateForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
for fieldname in ['username', 'password1', 'password2']:
self.fields[fieldname].help_text = None
print UserCreateForm()
output:
<tr><th><label for="id_username">Username:</label></th><td><input id="id_username" type="text" name="username" maxlength="30" /></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_password1">Password:</label></th><td><input type="password" name="password1" id="id_password1" /></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_password2">Password confirmation:</label></th><td><input type="password" name="password2" id="id_password2" /></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_email">Email:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="email" id="id_email" /></td></tr>
If you are doing too many changes, in such cases it is better to just override the fields e.g.
class UserCreateForm(UserCreationForm):
password2 = forms.CharField(label=_("Whatever"), widget=MyPasswordInput
but in your case my solution will work very well.