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How to Create a form using Django Forms

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

This article explains how to create a basic form using various form fields and attributes. Creating a form in Django is very similar to creating a model, you define the fields you want and specify their types. For example, a registration form might need fields like First Name (CharField), Roll Number (IntegerField), and so on.

Field_name = forms.FieldType(attributes)

Now to render this form into a view, move to views.py and create a home_view as below. 

Consider a project named geeksforgeeks with an app called geeks.

Refer to the following articles to check how to create a project and an app in Django. 

• How to Create a Basic Project using MVT in Django?
• How to Create an App in Django ?

Inside your app directory, create a file called forms.py where you will define all your forms. Use Django’s forms.Form class to create a form.

In forms.py, add the following code:

from django import forms

class InputForm(forms.Form):
    first_name = forms.CharField(max_length=200)
    last_name = forms.CharField(max_length=200)
    roll_number = forms.IntegerField(help_text="Enter 6 digit roll number")
    password = forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput())

Let's explain what exactly is happening, left side denotes the name of the field and to the right of it, you define various functionalities of an input field correspondingly. A field's syntax is denoted as 

In your app’s views.py, import the form and create a view to render it:

from django.shortcuts import render
from .forms import InputForm

# Create your views here.
def home_view(request):
    context ={}
    context['form']= InputForm()
    return render(request, "home.html", context)

Here, an instance of the form is created and passed to the template context.

Create or edit the home.html template inside your templates folder and add the following:

<form action="" method="post">
    {% csrf_token %}
    {{ form }}
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Now, visit http://localhost:8000/ to see your form rendered.

The default form rendering ({{ form }}) is functional but basic. Django provides convenient methods to change the form layout:

• {{ form.as_table }}: renders the form fields wrapped in <tr> table rows
• {{ form.as_p }}: renders form fields inside <p> tags
• {{ form.as_ul }}: renders form fields inside <li> list items

You can render individual fields separately using:

{{ form.first_name }}

{{ form.last_name }}

Note: When rendering fields manually, make sure to handle validation and errors properly, and always include CSRF tokens in your form. Otherwise, you risk breaking Django’s built-in form validation.

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