Define css class in django Forms
Yet another solution that doesn't require changes in python code and so is better for designers and one-off presentational changes: django-widget-tweaks. Hope somebody will find it useful.
Answered my own question. Sigh
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/widgets/#django.forms.Widget.attrs
I didn't realize it was passed into the widget constructor.
Here is another solution for adding class definitions to the widgets after declaring the fields in the class.
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(SampleClass, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.fields['name'].widget.attrs['class'] = 'my_class'