Rendering a value as text instead of field inside a Django Form

Also, don't forget you can also do {{myform.instance.name}}

Old topic, but I think some people still comes here.

You can do something like this too:

from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe

class PlainTextWidget(forms.Widget):
    def render(self, _name, value, _attrs):
        return mark_safe(value) if value is not None else '-'

And in your form

class SomeForm(Form):
   somename = forms.CharField(widget=PlainTextWidget)

Under Django 2.1+ you'll need the following:

from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe

class PlainTextWidget(forms.Widget):
    def render(self, name, value, attrs=None, renderer=None):
        return mark_safe(value) if value is not None else '-'

You can also use a new widget: I did this so that I could have a widget that created a text display of a date, and a hidden form with the same date in it, so it could be visible to the user, but they cannot change it.

Here is an initial (still testing/to be cleaned up) version:

class DayLabelWidget(forms.Widget):
    def render(self, name, value, attrs):
        final_attrs = self.build_attrs(attrs, name=name)
        if hasattr(self, 'initial'):
            value = self.initial
        if type(value) == type(u''):
            value = datetime.date(*map(int, value.split('-')))
        return mark_safe(
            "%s" % value.strftime("%A (%d %b %Y)")
        ) + mark_safe(
            "<input type='hidden' name='%s' value='%s' />" % (
                name, value
            )
        )

    def _has_changed(self, initial, data):
        return False

You then use this in the field as (widget=DayLabelWidget,).

<form>
    {% for field in form %}
            {{ field.label }}: {{ field.value }}
    {% endfor %}
</form>

Take a look here Form fields and Working with forms