Django 2 by Example

Creating forms with Django

Let's start by building the form to share posts. Django has a built-in forms framework that allows you to create forms in an easy manner. The forms framework allows you to define the fields of your form, specify how they have to be displayed, and indicate how they have to validate input data. The Django forms framework offers a flexible way to render forms and handle the data.

Django comes with two base classes to build forms:

• Form: Allows you to build standard forms
• ModelForm: Allows you to build forms tied to model instances

First, create a forms.py file inside the directory of your blog application and make it look like this:

from django import forms class EmailPostForm(forms.Form): name = forms.CharField(max_length=25) ...