{{ form.as_ul }} – Render Django Forms as list

Django forms are an advanced set of HTML forms that can be created using python and support all features of HTML forms in a pythonic way. Rendering Django Forms in the template may seem messy at times but with proper knowledge of Django Forms and attributes of fields, one can easily create excellent Form with all powerful features. In this article, Form is rendered as list in the template.

{{ form.as_ul }} – Render Django Forms as list

Illustration of {{ form.as_ul }} using an Example. Consider a project named geeksforgeeks having an app named geeks.

Refer to the following articles to check how to create a project and an app in Django.

• How to Create a Basic Project using MVT in Django?
• How to Create an App in Django ?

Let’s create a sample Django Form to render it and show as an example. In geeks > forms.py, enter following code 

Python3

from django import forms

# creating a form
class InputForm(forms.Form):

    first_name = forms.CharField(max_length = 200)
    last_name = forms.CharField(max_length = 200)
    roll_number = forms.IntegerField(
                     help_text = "Enter 6 digit roll number"
                     )
    password = forms.CharField(widget = forms.PasswordInput())

Now we need a View to render this form into a template. Let’s create a view, 

Python3

from django.shortcuts import render
from .forms import InputForm

# Create your views here.
def home_view(request):
    context ={}
    context['form']= InputForm()
    return render(request, "home.html", context)

Finally, we will create the template where we need the form to be placed. In templates > home.html, 

html

<form action = "" method = "post">
    {% csrf_token %}
    <ul>
        {{ form.as_ul }}
    </ul>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Here {{ form.as_ul }} will render them as list cells wrapped in <li> tags. Let’s check whether this is working accordingly or not. Open http://localhost:8000/ Let’s check the source code whether the form is rendered as a list or not. By rendering as a list it is meant that all input fields will be enclosed in <li> tags. Here is the demonstration,

Other Methods

• {{ form.as_table }} will render them as table cells wrapped in <tr> tags
• {{ form.as_p }} will render them wrapped in <p> tags