Django: Change widget in admin form

When you use a TextField in your model, the automatic generation for the form uses a TextArea element, which isn't always ideal.

In those instances, you will want to change the control widget so it displays as a different control type.

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01.from django.contrib import admin

02.from django import forms

03. 

04.class SkinAdminForm(forms.ModelForm):

05.  # Modifies the image_path field so its smaller.

06.  image_path = forms.CharField()

07. 

08.  class Meta:

09.    model = Skin

10. 

11. 

12.# Admin to allow user to create skins

13.class SkinAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):

14.  form = SkinAdminForm

15. 

16. 

17.admin.site.register(Skin, SkinAdmin)

Although the "Skin" model has more than just the image_path field, changing image_path to a CharField will not affect anything else.

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