Generic forms (ModelForm) provide HTML for a form! Can generic views (DetailView) do same?

This has bamboozled me for a while. I Have a wonderful little test app I'm playing with which lists objects (ListView) and next to each object puts an edit and view link. Sort of like:

• [view] [edit] Object 1
• [view] [edit] Object 2
• [view] [edit] Object 3

The ListView works like a dream. The ModelForm works a dream and on the edit link I can simply display the form by including {{ form }} in a generic template. What a beautifully fficient generic way of rendering quick test forms and such. Love it.

Now I want to do same with a DetailView, i.e. render a page that just shows me Object 1 say much like my ModelForm does but not as a form as a readonly display, using labels not fields:

The form say provides:

<tr><th><label for="id_prop1">Label 1:</label></th><td><input id="id_prop1" ... /></td></tr> 
<tr><th><label for="id_prop2">Label 2:</label></th><td><input id="id_prop2" ... /></td></tr> 
<tr><th><label for="id_prop3">Label 3:</label></th><td><input id="id_prop3" ... /></td></tr> 
<tr><th><label for="id_prop4">Label 4:</label></th><td><input id="id_prop4" ... /></td></tr>



Can DetailView not provide me with something similar, like:

<tr><th>Label 1:</th><td>Value 1</td></tr> 
<tr><th>Label 2:</th><td>Value 2</td></tr> 
<tr><th>Label 3:</th><td>Value 3</td></tr> 
<tr><th>Label 4:</th><td>Value 4</td></tr>

I find it hard to believe not, but danged if I can find it!

An odd inconsistency if so. Do I really have to derive a class DetailViewWithHTML from it and write my own wrappers?

Regards,

Bernd. 

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