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Python Customizing the Django Admin Customizing the Detail View Making a Text Preview

Posted by David Durst
David Durst
784 Points

How do you know which templates a given form in admin uses?

In this video it discusses copying over the contents of a few templates into a custom template, however, it is not detailed how a developer would effectively discover which templates are being used for any given admin page.

Is there some easy steps which one could use? Or is it simply a matter of digging through the Django source?

1 Answer

Greg Kaleka
Greg Kaleka
39,021 Points
Greg Kaleka
Greg Kaleka
39,021 Points

Hi David,

You can certainly dig through the source code, but the easiest way to do this is using django-debug-toolbar.

If you aren't familiar with this don't worry - you'll learn about it soon (I can't remember where in the Learn Django track they introduce it). The toolbar includes a panel with the template that was used.

Cheers :beers:

-Greg