Making a field Read-Only in Django

[Frankline]

Hi all,

I'm running Django 1.7 and Python 3.4. I'm trying to make the username field of my custom model to be read-only. I think this is usually set in the form. Below is what I currently have in my forms.py

class AuthUserChangeForm(UserChangeForm):

    """

    A form for updating users. Includes all the fields on the user, but 

    replaces the password field with admin's password hash display field.

    """

    password = ReadOnlyPasswordHashField(label="password",

                                         help_text="""Raw passwords are not stored, so there is no way to see this

                                         user's password, but you can change the password using <a href=\"password/\">

                                         this form</a>""")

    class Meta:

        model = AuthUser

        fields = ('username', 'email', 'password', 'is_active', 'is_staff', 'is_superuser', 'user_permissions')

        widgets = {

            'username': TextInput( attrs={'readonly':'readonly'} ),

            'email': TextInput(),

        }

    def clean_username(self):

        # Regardless of what the user provides, reset field to initial value

        # Not appropriate to change usernames once set.

        return self.initial["username"]

        

    def clean_password(self):

        # Regardless of what the user provides, return the initial value.

        # This is done here, rather than on the field, because the field does 

        # not have access to the initial value

        return self.initial["password"]

What I'm I missing here?

[Patrick Beeson]

I believe you can set this via a built-in widget's attrs:

somefield = forms.CharField(
    widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'readonly':'readonly'})
)