Set CharField to RTL in Django Admin site - django

Question

The frontend of my Django site is in Persian language which is RTL and everything is ok except that the CharField model fields are in LTR direction when edited in the Admin site.
Here's my model:
class Post(models.Model):
STATUS_CHOICES = (('draft', 'Draft'), ('published', 'Published'))
title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
slug = models.SlugField(max_length=100, allow_unicode=True)
author = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='blog_posts')
lead = RichTextField()
body = RichTextUploadingField()
created_on = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
published_on = models.DateTimeField(default=timezone.now)
updated_on = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
status = models.CharField(max_length=10, choices=STATUS_CHOICES, default='draft')
is_featured = models.BooleanField(default=False, verbose_name='Featured Post')
objects = models.Manager()
published = PublishedManager()
featured = FeaturedManager()
class Meta:
ordering = ('-published_on',)
def __str__(self):
return self.title
I know I can set the site's language to Persian and solve this issue but I don't want to because the Persian translation of Django is dull.
Another solution is to use one of available Rich Text editors (tinymce or ckeditor) but those are overkill for a CharField field.
I also tried custom admin form like this:
class PostAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Post
fields = ['title', 'slug', 'author', 'lead', 'body', 'status', 'is_featured']
widgets = {'title': forms.TextInput(attrs={'dir': 'rtl'})}
#admin.register(Post, PostAdminForm)
class PostAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
list_display = ('title', 'slug', 'created_on', 'published_on', 'status', 'is_featured')
list_filter = ('status', 'created_on', 'published_on', 'is_featured')
search_fields = ('title', 'body')
prepopulated_fields = {'slug': ('title',)}
raw_id_fields = ('author',)
date_hierarchy = 'published_on'
ordering = ('status', 'created_on', 'published_on')
But it gives me this error:
AttributeError: 'ModelFormOptions' object has no attribute 'abstract'

Answer 1

In your admin.py file for your app, you can create a custom form for your model. I don't know your model so I will use general names for this as an example:
from django.contrib import admin
from app_name.models import *
from django import forms
class CustomAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = MyModel
fields = ['mycharfield']
widgets = {'mycharfield':forms.TextInput(attrs={'dir':'rtl'})}
admin.site.register(MyModel,CustomAdminForm)
This should make the mycharfield text input render as being RTL on the admin page for the MyModel form. The line widgets = {'mycharfield':forms.TextInput(attrs={'dir':'rtl'})} will change the text input widget's dir attribute to the rtl value. If you have more than one CharField in your model and want RTL for all of them simply add each field to the fields attribute in the form and do the same thing with the widget attribute for each field.

Answer 2

As the answer provided by Nathan was partially correct, I did my own research and found that the correct way is this:
class CustomPostForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Post
fields = ['title', 'slug', 'lead', 'body']
widgets = {'title': forms.TextInput(attrs={'dir': 'rtl', 'class': 'vTextField'})}
and then:
#admin.register(Post)
class PostAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
form = CustomPostForm
What surprises me is that the above code removed vTextField class from the input field so I had to add it again.