How i can remove help_text from a user creation form?

Question

I need to remove help text that appears on my template when I am creating a new user with the UserCreationForm.

I mean this help texts:

for the username field: Required. 30 characters or fewer. Letters, digits and @/./+/-/_ only.

and the password confirmation: Enter the same password as above, for verification.

Which comes from help_text parameter on field

Possible duplicate of [Removing help\_text from Django UserCreateForm](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13202845/removing-help-text-from-django-usercreateform) — Confusion Matrix, Sep 21 '17 at 11:51

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '14 at 09:22

You are probably rendering your template with something like {{ form.as_p }} which renders everything, labels, help_texts, errors and the field itself.

Instead you can do this:

{{ form.username.label }}
{{ form.username }}
....

Here are more details about manual rendering of forms: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/#rendering-fields-manually

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 11 '14 at 15:24

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with init you can set help_text None

class UserCreateForm(UserCreationForm):
    email = forms.EmailField(required=True)

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(UserCreateForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
            self.fields['email'].help_text = ''

edited Dec 11 '14 at 15:24

Sardorbek Imomaliev

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answered Dec 11 '14 at 09:25

Raja Simon

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not a good way to do it. We don't want to override it, but just to hide it – Mihai Zamfir Dec 11 '14 at 10:26
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@MihaiZamfir...what's the difference? It's just being overridden in the form itself, not in the model. – rnevius Dec 11 '14 at 10:30
Actually you can do it like this `class UserCreateForm(UserCreationForm): email = forms.EmailField(required=True) email.help_text = ''` – Sardorbek Imomaliev Dec 11 '14 at 15:19
@batiskaf that also nice way .. ! why don't you make answer for that ?. And i am coming from the lon way .. :) – Raja Simon Dec 11 '14 at 15:24

Sardorbek Imomaliev · Answer 3 · 2016-10-07T08:09:35.253

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Made an asnwer, Actually you can do it like this

class UserCreateForm(UserCreationForm):
    email = forms.EmailField(required=True)
    email.help_text = ''

edited Oct 07 '16 at 08:09

answered Dec 11 '14 at 15:29

Sardorbek Imomaliev

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How i can remove help_text from a user creation form?

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