WTForms support for input readonly attribute?

python html forms wtforms readonly-attribute
casual picture casual · Mar 7, 2012 · Viewed 21.7k times · Source

Here they say it's not supported out of the box.

Do you know a way to make HTML input form fields use the 'readonly' attribute with WTForms?

Answer

Bruno Rocha - rochacbruno picture Bruno Rocha - rochacbruno · Apr 4, 2017

The solution is using render_kw in form field declaration.

my_field = fields.StringField('Label', render_kw={'readonly': True})

Related questions

Sending data from HTML form to a Python script in Flask

I have the code below in my Python script: def cmd_wui(argv, path_to_tx): """Run a web UI.""" from flask import Flask, flash, jsonify, render_template, request import webbrowser app = Flask(__name__) @app.route('/tx/index/') …

Read More
Using Python to sign into website, fill in a form, then sign out

As part of my quest to become better at Python I am now attempting to sign in to a website I frequent, send myself a private message, and then sign out. So far, I've managed to sign in (using urllib, …

Read More
How do I set custom HTML attributes in django forms?

I have a Django form that is part of page. Lets say I have a field: search_input = forms.CharField(_(u'Search word'), required=False) I can access it only in template via {{ form.search_input }}. How to set custom HTML …

Read More