Django 3 Forms and ModelForms

What you'll learn

Creating forms can be a lot of effort and pain dealing with HTML and database connections. This course, Django 3 Forms and ModelForms, will help you create and render snappy, intuitive, and beautiful forms for a website, be it login forms, placing orders, entering survey details or writing blog posts and comments. First, you’ll explore modelForms, which essentially allow you to create forms from a pre-existing model. This will enable you to gather information from users, validate it, and send it back to your web application. Next, you’ll get introduced to an advanced way of rendering forms; using formsets, widgets, and templates and be able to customize them according to your needs. Features like Crispy forms will go a long way in making that form engaging and easy on the eyes. Finally, you’ll learn multiple ways to make the forms secure with Django’s easy-to-use protection against CSRF attacks from a malicious site to your server. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Django’s ModelForms and all of their intricacies needed to create a useful, convenient, and secure way of creating information collecting forms.

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