Quickly style all of your inlines with formfield_for_dbfield
class PersonInline(admin.TabularInline):
model = Person
extra = 6
def formfield_for_dbfield(self, db_field, **kwargs):
attrs = { 'size': 15 }
if db_field.attname == 'interest_level':
attrs = { 'size': 2 }
kwargs['widget'] = forms.TextInput(attrs=attrs)
return super(PersonInline, self).formfield_for_dbfield(db_field,**kwargs)
I see this used for things like custom widgets, ReadOnlyWidget, ColoredWidget, etc, but I wanted a quick and dirty(?) way to fit more fields on my inlines, since the admin just overflows.
Yuji Tomita 
When I try this, I get an error on the :
kwargs[‘widget’] = forms.TextInput(attrs=attrs)
line, saying “forms is not defined”…
That means you don’t have forms defined, just as if you started up python and wrote some variable that doesn’t exist.
you need to import forms:
from django import forms
How would I modify this if I want some fields to be treated at TextInput, and some to be treated as Textarea?