Add a css class to a field in wtform

You actually don't need to go to the widget level to attach an HTML class attribute to the rendering of the field. You can simply specify it using the class_ parameter in the jinja template.

e.g.

    {{ form.email(class_="form-control") }}

will result in the following HTML::

    <input class="form-control" id="email" name="email" type="text" value="">

to do this dynamically, say, using the name of the form as the value of the HTML class attribute, you can do the following:

Jinja:

    {{ form.email(class_="form-style-"+form.email.name) }}

Output:

    <input class="form-style-email" id="email" name="email" type="text" value="">

For more information about injecting HTML attributes, check out the official documentation.


In WTForms 2.1 I using extra_classes, like the line bellow:

1. The first way

{{ f.render_form_field(form.email, extra_classes='ourClasses') }}

We can also use @John Go-Soco answers to use render_kw attribute on our form field, like this way.

2. The second way

style={'class': 'ourClasses', 'style': 'width:50%;'}
email = EmailField('Email', 
                   validators=[InputRequired(), Length(1, 64), Email()],
                   render_kw=style)

But I would like more prefer to use the first way.


If you would like to programatically include the css class (or indeed, any other attributes) to the form field, then you can use the render_kw argument.

eg:

r_field = RadioField(
    'Label', 
    choices=[(1,'Enabled'),(0,'Disabled')], 
    render_kw={'class':'myclass','style':'font-size:150%'}
)

will render as:

<ul class="myclass" id="r_field" style="font-size:150%">
    <li><input id="r_field-0" name="r_field" type="radio" value="1"> <label for="r_field-0">Enabled</label></li>
    <li><input id="r_field-1" name="r_field" type="radio" value="0"> <label for="r_field-1">Disabled</label></li>
</ul>

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