Removing help_text from Django UserCreateForm

django, django-models, django-registration, python

Solution

You can set `help_text` of fields to None in `__init__`

from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
from django import forms

class UserCreateForm(UserCreationForm):
    email = forms.EmailField(required=True)

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(UserCreateForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

        for fieldname in ['username', 'password1', 'password2']:
            self.fields[fieldname].help_text = None

print UserCreateForm()

output:

<tr><th><label for="id_username">Username:</label></th><td><input id="id_username" type="text" name="username" maxlength="30" /></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_password1">Password:</label></th><td><input type="password" name="password1" id="id_password1" /></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_password2">Password confirmation:</label></th><td><input type="password" name="password2" id="id_password2" /></td></tr>
<tr><th><label for="id_email">Email:</label></th><td><input type="text" name="email" id="id_email" /></td></tr>

If you are doing too many changes, in such cases it is better to just override the fields e.g.

class UserCreateForm(UserCreationForm):
    password2 = forms.CharField(label=_("Whatever"), widget=MyPasswordInput

but in your case my solution will work very well.

Problem

Probably a poor question, but I'm using Django's `UserCreationForm` (slightly modified to include email), and I would like to remove the `help_text` that Django automatically displays on the HTML page. On the Register portion of my HTML page, it has the Username, Email, Password1 & Password 2 fields. But underneath Username is "Required. 30 characters or fewer. Letters, digits, and @... only." And under Password Confirmation (Password 2), it says "Enter the same password as above for verification." How do I remove these? ``` #models.py class UserCreateForm(UserCreationForm): email = forms.EmailField(required=True) def save(self, commit=True): user = super(UserCreateForm, self).save(commit=False) user.email = self.cleaned_data['email'] if commit: user.save() return user class Meta: model = User fields = ("username", "email", "password1", "password2") exclude = ('username.help_text') #views.py def index(request): r = Movie.objects.all().order_by('-pub_date') form = UserCreateForm() return render_to_response('qanda/index.html', {'latest_movie_list': r, 'form':form}, context_instance = RequestContext(request)) #index.html <form action = "/home/register/" method = "post" id = "register">{% csrf_token %} <h6> Create an account </h6> {{ form.as_p }} <input type = "submit" value = "Create!"> <input type = "hidden" name = "next" value = "{{ next|escape }}" /> </form> ```

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