[Fixed]-How to remove 'selected' attribute from item in ModelChoiceField?

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I don’t know would it work or not, but an idea would be clear for you.

So, i found source of Select widget that sets your selected property in html. It’s here, just search for selected_html.

You can try to subclass Select widget:

from django.forms.widgets import Select

class CustomSelect(Select):
    def render_option(self, selected_choices, option_value, option_label):
        if option_value is None:
            option_value = ''
        option_value = force_text(option_value)
        if option_value in selected_choices:
            selected_html = ''  # make it empty string like in else statement or refactor all that method
            if not self.allow_multiple_selected:
                # Only allow for a single selection.
                selected_choices.remove(option_value)
        else:
            selected_html = ''
        return format_html('<option value="{}"{}>{}</option>', option_value, selected_html, force_text(option_label))

And then in forms

class YourForm(forms.Form):
    your_field = forms.ModelChoiceField(widget=CustomSelect())
    ...

It’s just solution that i came up with, and i know that this is not so elegant, but it seems that there is no simple way to disable that selected thing.

👤vishes_shell

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