Django Admin – Overriding the widget of a custom form field

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The django admin uses custom widgets for many of its fields. The way to override fields is to create a Form for use with the ModelAdmin object.

# forms.py

from django import forms
from django.contrib import admin

class ProductAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(ProductAdminForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['tags'].widget = admin.widgets.AdminTextareaWidget()

Then, in your ModelAdmin object, you specify the form:

from django.contrib import admin
from models import Product
from forms import ProductAdminForm

class ProductAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    form = ProductAdminForm

admin.site.register(Product, ProductAdmin)

You can also override the queryset at this time: to filter objects according to another field in the model, for instance (since limit_choices_to cannot handle this)

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