How to have default/initial values in a Django form that is bound and rendered

Ole Laursen February 4, 2020 Reply

For a full solution, you need to query the value of each field. You can do this with .value() on an instantiated form. So you can instantiate a dummy form, and then go through the bound fields, calling .value() on them and then using that as data, something this:

    dummy_form = ...

    default_values = {}
    for bound_field in dummy_form:
        v = bound_field.value()
        if v is not None:
            default_values[bound_field.name] = v

Then

   SomeForm(default_values)

I think this works because the fields check the type of their input before cleaning. It's not exactly elegant, though, forms in Django are a bit rough around the edges.

Anonymous February 10, 2021 Reply

This works, thx