Using HTML in a Django form label

I recently had the need to add some HTML to the label for a form field using Django. The solution is pretty easy, except I didn’t see it written explicitly anywhere, and I missed the memo of the function I should be using.
My form first just had the HTML in the form label as so:

from django import forms
 
class AccountForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput(), max_length=15, label='Your Name (<a href="//www.blogger.com/questions/whyname/" target="_blank">why</a>?')

However, when I displayed it, the form was autoescaped.

This is generally a good thing, except my form obviously didn’t display correctly. I tried autoescaping it in the template, but that didn’t work. To resolve this you’ll need to mark that individual label as safe. Thus:


from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
from django import forms
 
class AccountForm(forms.Form):
    name = forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput(), max_length=15, label=mark_safe('Your Name (<a href="//www.blogger.com/questions/whyname/" target="_blank">why</a>?)'))

It will now display correctly:

In [1]: from myproject.forms import *
 
In [2]: form = AccountForm()
 
In [3]: form.as_ul()
Out[3]: u'
<li><label for="id_name">Your Name (<a href="//www.blogger.com/questions/whyname/" target="_blank">why</a>?):</label> <input id="id_name" maxlength="15" name="name" type="text"></li>
'

There’s maybe another easier way to do this, but this worked for me.