Django: how to hide/overwrite default label with ModelForm?

To expand on my comment above, there isn't a TextField for forms. That's what your TextField error is telling you. There's no point worrying about the label until you have a valid form field.

The solution is to use forms.CharField instead, with a Textarea widget. You could use the model form widgets option, but it's simpler to set the widget when defining the field.

Once you have a valid field, you already know how to set a blank label: just use the label='' in your field definition.

# I prefer to importing django.forms
# but import the fields etc individually
# if you prefer 
from django import forms

class BooklogForm(forms.ModelForm):
    book_comment = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea, label='')

    class Meta: 
        model = Booklog
        exclude = ('Author',)

If you're using Django 1.6+ a number of new overrides were added to the meta class of ModelForm, including labels and field_classes.

See: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/forms/modelforms/#overriding-the-default-fields

To override just the label you can do

def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): 
    super(ModelForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
    self.fields['my_field_name'].label = 'My New Title'