change a widget attribute in ModelForm without define the field

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from django import forms
from django.contrib.auth.models import User 

class UserForm(forms.ModelForm):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(UserForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        # change a widget attribute:
        self.fields['user_permissions'].widget.attrs["size"] = 5
         
    class Meta:
        model = User

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Comments

guettli (on September 17, 2008):

Related: Snippet 755

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