Why aren't labels appearing in my Django ModelForm? - django

Question

I have a very simple ModelForm in my app that looks like this:
# ModelForm
class ProductForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = MyModel
exclude = ['created', 'last_modified', 'serial_number']
# Model
class BaseModel(models.Model):
created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, blank=True, null=True)
last_modified = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True, blank=True, null=True)
class MyModel(BaseModel):
product = models.TextField(verbose_name='Product Name')
serial_number = models.TextField(verbose_name='Serial Number')
And a form that looks like this:
# Form
<form method="POST" action="{% url some_url %}">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ formset.management_form }}
{% for form in formset %}
{% for field in form %}
{% if field.errors %}
<div>{{ field.errors }}</div>
{% endif %}
<div>
{{ field.label_tag }}:
{{ field }}
</div>
{% endfor %}
{% endfor %}
<div class="actions">
<input class="button submit focus" type="submit" value="{% trans "Save" %}" />
</div>
</form>
When I check out the view using this, I just see a colon (:) followed by the textfield: The label is gone.
According to the documentation for ModelForm:
In addition, each generated form field has attributes set as follows:
...
The form field’s label is set to the verbose_name of the model field, with the first character capitalized.
What mistake have I made?
I am using Django 1.4.1 if it matters.

Answer 1

You have to put the field label inside a <label> tag. So:
<div>
<label for="id_{{field.html_name}}">{{field.label}}:</label>
{{ field }}
</div>

Answer 2

The only solution I managed to find that still allowed me to separate each row of the form was doing the following:
<form method="POST" action="{% url some_url %}">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ formset.as_ul }}
<div class="actions">
<input class="button submit focus" type="submit" value="{% trans "Save" %}" />
</div>
</form>
... the key piece being the {{ formset.as_ul }} instead of iterating through each field.
As for why the other listed solution (or the solution in the documentation) didn't work, I will remain baffled.