Last modified: Jan 10, 2023 By Alexander Williams

Understand how to use Django CreateView with example

CreateView is a class view that helps you to display a model's form with validation errors and save objects.

To understand more, let's see an example.

Django CreateView Example

First of all, we need to create a model in models.py.


class TestModel(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    parent = models.CharField(max_length=50)
    
    def __str__(self):
        return self.name

Now, let's create CreateView class for our model and display the model's form.

In views.py:


from django.views.generic.edit import CreateView

class TestCreateView(CreateView):
    model = TestModel
    template_name = 'test.html'
    fields = '__all__'
    success_url = "/create"

model:the model's name.
template_name: the template that we'll display the form.
fields: the fields that you want to display, ex ['name', 'parent'], __all__ means all fields.
success_url: The URL to redirect to after successful submission of the form.


In urls.py, create a path for our View.


path('create/', TestCreateView.as_view()),

In test.html:


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
   </head>
   <body>

<h1>Test Model Creation</h1>


<form method="post">{% csrf_token %}
    {{ form.as_p }}
    <input type="submit" value="Save">
</form>




 </body>
</html>


Result:

Understand how to use Django CreateView with example

View-source:

Understand how to use Django CreateView with example

Submission the form:

Understand how to use Django CreateView with example

Admin interface:

Understand how to use Django CreateView with example

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