How do I remove from Django widgets HTML5 attributes

Question

Django Widgets set HTML5 maxlength attribute, based on the Model max_length.

class Publication(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)

<input maxlength="255" required="" id="id_name" type="text">

I want to remove this attribute, because is interfering with my own validation, which is more complex.

I know that required attribute can be set to false, but I don't know for other html5 attributes.

I want to apply them in multiple forms to different fields.

Modifying the form init is ok, but not very scalable.

A base class and inheritance is an option, but I don't want to applied to all fields.

I'm looking for something like required=false, to apply to multiple fields.

Answer 1

I was solving this recently. I did this in my forms.py:

from django import forms


class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    your_name = forms.CharField(label='Your name', max_length=50, widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'form-control', 'placeholder':'Enter Name'}))
    your_surname = forms.CharField(required=False,label='Your surname', max_length=50, widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'form-control', 'placeholder':'Enter Surname'}))


    # Remove html5 attr from input field
    your_name.widget.attrs.pop('maxlength', None)

Only for info, this is valid for Forms not ModelForms.