Django form - set label

I have a form that inherits from 2 other forms. In my form, I want to change the label of a field that was defined in one of the parent forms. Does anyone know how this can be done?

I'm trying to do it in my __init__, but it throws an error saying that "'RegistrationFormTOS' object has no attribute 'email'". Does anyone know how I can do this?

Thanks.

Here is my form code:

from django import forms
from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
from registration.forms import RegistrationFormUniqueEmail
from registration.forms import RegistrationFormTermsOfService

attrs_dict = { 'class': 'required' }

class RegistrationFormTOS(RegistrationFormUniqueEmail, RegistrationFormTermsOfService):
	"""
	Subclass of ``RegistrationForm`` which adds a required checkbox
	for agreeing to a site's Terms of Service.
	
	"""
	email2 = forms.EmailField(widget=forms.TextInput(attrs=dict(attrs_dict, maxlength=75)), label=_(u'verify email address'))
	
	def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
		self.email.label = "New Email Label"
		super(RegistrationFormTOS, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

	def clean_email2(self):
		"""
		Verifiy that the values entered into the two email fields
		match. 
		"""
		if 'email' in self.cleaned_data and 'email2' in self.cleaned_data:
			if self.cleaned_data['email'] != self.cleaned_data['email2']:
				raise forms.ValidationError(_(u'You must type the same email each time'))
		return self.cleaned_data

You should use:

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    super(RegistrationFormTOS, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
    self.fields['email'].label = "New Email Label"

Note first you should use the super call.

Here's an example taken from Overriding the default fields:

> from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _ >
> class AuthorForm(ModelForm): > class Meta: > model = Author > fields = ('name', 'title', 'birth_date') > labels = { > 'name': _('Writer'), > } > help_texts = { > 'name': _('Some useful help text.'), > } > error_messages = { > 'name': { > 'max_length': _("This writer's name is too long."), > }, > }

You can set label as an attribute of field when you define form.

class GiftCardForm(forms.ModelForm):
    card_name = forms.CharField(max_length=100, label="Cardholder Name")
    card_number = forms.CharField(max_length=50, label="Card Number")
    card_code = forms.CharField(max_length=20, label="Security Code")
    card_expirate_time = forms.CharField(max_length=100, label="Expiration (MM/YYYY)")

    class Meta:
        model = models.GiftCard
        exclude = ('price', )

You access fields in a form via the 'fields' dict:

self.fields['email'].label = "New Email Label"

That's so that you don't have to worry about form fields having name clashes with the form class methods. (Otherwise you couldn't have a field named 'clean' or 'is_valid') Defining the fields directly in the class body is mostly just a convenience.

Try on Models.py

email = models.EmailField(verbose_name="E-Mail Address")
email_confirmation = models.EmailField(verbose_name="Please repeat")

It don't work for model inheritance, but you can set the label directly in the model

email = models.EmailField("E-Mail Address")
email_confirmation = models.EmailField("Please repeat")

if all other solutions don't work, this one worked for me (to change the user class label to django contrib auth)

#in models.py

User._meta.get_field('username').verbose_name = "new name"