Crispy Forms GDS

A GOV.UK Design System template pack for django-crispy-forms, for simple and powerful form generation which is compliant with GDS usability and accessibility guidelines.

Requires Django 2.2 or later and django-crispy-forms 1.9 or later.

This template pack supports govuk-frontend 3.5 or later.

Quickstart

This is a minimal howto without options or details - see the crispy-forms-gds documentation for full instructions for installation and usage.

Install using pip:

pip install crispy-forms-gds

Add to installed apps, with settings to tell django-crispy-forms to use this theme:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
  ...
  'crispy_forms',
  'crispy_forms_gds',
]
CRISPY_ALLOWED_TEMPLATE_PACKS = ["gds"]
CRISPY_TEMPLATE_PACK = "gds"

Build a regular crispy form using layout objects from crispy_forms_gds:

from django import forms

from crispy_forms_gds.helper import FormHelper
from crispy_forms_gds.layout import Submit


class TextInputForm(forms.Form):

    name = forms.CharField(
        label="Name",
        help_text="Your full name.",
        widget=forms.TextInput(),
        error_messages={
            "required": "Enter your name as it appears on your passport"
        }
    )

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.helper = FormHelper()
        self.helper.add_input(Submit("submit", "Submit"))

Render the form in your templates as normal:

{% load crispy_forms_tags %}
{% crispy form %}

Open the page in your browser:

Features

The template pack supports all the basic components listed in the GOV.UK Design System:

Demo

If you checkout the code from the repository, there is a Django site you can run to see the forms in action. You will need to install nvm first (to manage node versions), then build and run the demo with:

make serve

Further reading

• Read the documentation on Read the docs
• Download the PyPi package
• Learn more about Django Crispy Forms