Django UpdateView not loading forms with styles - django

Question

I created a form using Django's UpdateView class, however, when the form loads it seems like the text boxes and text areas are not styled (looks like form.as_p style). Here is an example of exactly what I did.
Views.py
class UpdatePostView(UpdateView):
template_name = 'Post/UpdatePost.html'
model = Post
fields = ['Title', 'Body']
success_url = reverse_lazy('BlogApp:main')
def form_valid(self, form):
form.instance.Title = form.cleaned_data['Title']
form.instance.Body = form.cleaned_data['Body']
form.instance.save()
return super().form_valid(form)
Here is how I loaded the form in UpdatePost.html:
<form id="UpdatePostForm" method="POST">
{% csrf_token %}
<div class="form-group">
<label for="PostTitle">{{form.Title.label}}</label>
{{form.Title}}
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<label for="PostBody">{{form.Body.label}}</label>
{{form.Body}}
</div>
<input class="btn btn-primary" type="submit" for="UpdatePostForm" value="Update">
</div>
</form>

Answer 1

If you use Bootstrap, you also can use django-crispy-forms (version for Bootstrap 4 https://github.com/django-crispy-forms/django-crispy-forms ,version for Bootstrap 5 - https://github.com/django-crispy-forms/crispy-bootstrap5). It is helpful to live DRY (Don't repeat yourself).
And then it will be something like(I use crispy-forms for Bootstrap 5):
pip install crispy-bootstrap5
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
"crispy_forms",
"crispy_bootstrap5",
...
)
CRISPY_ALLOWED_TEMPLATE_PACKS = "bootstrap5"
CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK = "bootstrap5"
class UpdatePostView(UpdateView):
template_name = 'Post/UpdatePost.html'
model = Post
fields = ['Title', 'Body']
success_url = reverse_lazy('BlogApp:main')
def form_valid(self, form):
form.instance.Title = form.cleaned_data['Title']
form.instance.Body = form.cleaned_data['Body']
form.instance.save()
return super().form_valid(form)
template
{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% load crispy_forms_tags %}
{% block content %}
<h1 class="text-center">Update Post</h1>
<br />
<form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">
{% csrf_token %}
{{form|crispy }}
<button class="btn btn-outline-primary">
Update
</button>
</form>
{% endblock content %}

Answer 2

Because by default the form.body and form.title render a html input, you can override the class attribut from your UpdateView like that :
def get_form(self, *args, **kwargs):
form = super(UpdatePostView, self).get_form(*args, **kwargs)
form.fields["Title"].widget.attrs["class"] = "form-group"
form.fields["Body"].widget.attrs["class"] = "form-group"
return form