[Django]-DRF APIView – How can I add help text to auto generated form?

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Specify help_text as additional keyword argument (see documentation) instead declaring a serializer field specifying all options that are already in the model field (unique, null, max_length etc.)

class MySerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = MyModel
        fields = ('id','name', ...)
        extra_kwargs = {
            'name': {
                'help_text': 'You help text here...'
            }
        }
👤Lucas Weyne

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You could add the help text using help_text argument of serializer field

class MySerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    name = serializers.CharField(help_text="foo bar")
    class Meta:
        Model = MyModel
        fields = ('id','name', ...)
👤JPG

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you can add help_text attribute in models.py

name = models.CharField(max_length=60, help_text="Your help text here....")

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👤Shihabudheen K M

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