[Django]-Why does my Django form keep saying "this field is required"

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Adding my comment as a proper answer:

Please try adding enctype= multipart/form-data to your <form> element in your template file.

If you don’t have this element your request.FILES will always be empty.

Copying from https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/http/file-uploads/#basic-file-uploads:

Note that request.FILES will only contain data if the request method was POST and the <form> that posted the request has the attribute enctype="multipart/form-data". Otherwise, request.FILES will be empty.

👤Serafeim

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If the field is required in your models.py (i.e. you have not stated blank=True or null=True), and you are using a ModelForm, then that will be a required field in your ModelForm

👤Aaron Lelevier

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