How to render the text of the selected option in template?

Question

I have a ModelForm that has a widget of type Select

 class MyModelForm(ModelForm):
    ...
    widgets = {
        'my_field': Select(
            choices=[('1', 'Choice 1')]
        ),
    }

In my view I'm retrieving an already stored model and passing the form as my_form to the template:

<div>{{ my_form.my_field.value }}</div>

As expected, this outputs:

How can I get the text 'Choice 1' instead?

Possible duplicate of [Django: Display Choice Value](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4320679/django-display-choice-value) — arogachev, Oct 21 '16 at 04:38

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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While not an exact duplicate, arogachev's duplicate suggestion did help me realize I should be setting the choices attribute in the Model's fields and not the ModelForm's widgets:

class MyModel(Model):
    my_field = models.CharField(max_length=50, choices=[
        ('1', 'Choice 1')
    ])

This way, I can do this:

<div>{{ my_form.instance.get_my_field_display }}</div>

Which outputs

Choice 1

Thanks!

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Oct 21 '16 at 05:03

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Yes, to be exact, you need to set `choices` as field argument. – arogachev Oct 21 '16 at 05:12

How to render the text of the selected option in template?

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