TextField missing in django.forms

Question

from django import forms

class UserForm(forms.ModelForm):
    first_name = forms.TextField(label=_(u'First name'), required=False)
    last_name = forms.TextField(label=_(u'Last name'))

The code above gives me an "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'TextField'. Everything seems to be ok, except the missing TextField:

ipdb> forms
<module 'django.forms' from '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/forms/__init__.pyc'>
ipdb> forms.
forms.BaseForm                        forms.EmailField                      forms.MultiWidget                     forms.TypedChoiceField
forms.BaseModelForm                   forms.Field                           forms.MultipleChoiceField             forms.TypedMultipleChoiceField
forms.BooleanField                    forms.FileField                       forms.MultipleHiddenInput             forms.URLField
forms.CharField                       forms.FileInput                       forms.NullBooleanField                forms.ValidationError
forms.CheckboxInput                   forms.FilePathField                   forms.NullBooleanSelect               forms.Widget
forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple          forms.FloatField                      forms.PasswordInput                   forms.fields
forms.ChoiceField                     forms.Form                            forms.RadioSelect                     forms.fields_for_model
forms.ClearableFileInput              forms.HiddenInput                     forms.RegexField                      forms.forms
forms.ComboField                      forms.IPAddressField                  forms.Select                          forms.formsets
forms.DEFAULT_DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS  forms.ImageField                      forms.SelectMultiple                  forms.model_to_dict
forms.DEFAULT_DATE_INPUT_FORMATS      forms.IntegerField                    forms.SlugField                       forms.models
forms.DEFAULT_TIME_INPUT_FORMATS      forms.Media                           forms.SplitDateTimeField              forms.save_instance
forms.DateField                       forms.MediaDefiningClass              forms.SplitDateTimeWidget             forms.util
forms.DateInput                       forms.ModelChoiceField                forms.TextInput                       forms.widgets
forms.DateTimeField                   forms.ModelForm                       forms.Textarea                        
forms.DateTimeInput                   forms.ModelMultipleChoiceField        forms.TimeField                       
forms.DecimalField                    forms.MultiValueField                 forms.TimeInput          

Any idea?

Answer 1

If you want a textarea you can use the forms.CharField with the forms.TextArea widget.

class ContactForm(forms.Form):
    message = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea)

Answer 2

Just want to add a better example for beginners like me, as all mentioned above, there is no TextFile for ModelForm, and if you need to use it, for the OP's case, should be:

first_name = forms.CharField(
     widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'placeholder': 'first name'}),
     label=_(u'First name'), 
     required=False)

And if you do need a textarea field for description or comment, then you can use Textarea widget:

description = forms.CharField(
     widget=forms.Textarea(attrs={'placeholder': 'Please enter the  description'}))

Answer 3

forms.TextField doesn't exist, check out the documentation you refer to, it's only for the models.

You can prove this to yourself by looking at the actual django source django/forms/fields.py.

You must use CharField with widget=forms.TextArea as you say in your comments.

Answer 4

Just use forms.Textarea instead of forms.TextInput.