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I started to see about forms in Django, only I had already created in templates of my project the forms with all inputs necessary. With the creation of forms in Django there is a way for me to link each form to a form already created on template so he doesn’t create another form with more inputs?
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As explained in this section of the documentation, you do not need to use the automatic form generation method ({{ form.as_p }}) if you don’t want to. Just have the fields in your template input correct (with the names appropriate to each field).
A way to find out what format is expected by a Form specific is - in shell for example - call the method as_p and see what your exit is:
>>> f = ContactForm(auto_id=True)
>>> print(f.as_p())
<p><label for="subject">Subject:</label> <input id="subject" type="text" name="subject" maxlength="100" /></p>
<p><label for="message">Message:</label> <input type="text" name="message" id="message" /></p>
<p><label for="sender">Sender:</label> <input type="email" name="sender" id="sender" /></p>
<p><label for="cc_myself">Cc myself:</label> <input type="checkbox" name="cc_myself" id="cc_myself" /></p>
From there you can check if your manually created template is in accordance with what is expected by Form, and if you are you can use it without problems.
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