How to remove DELETE button from django admin page

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I want to remove the Delete button from django admin page as shown below.

Possible duplicate of [In Django Admin how do I disable the Delete link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4043843/in-django-admin-how-do-i-disable-the-delete-link) — RonanFelipe, Jul 09 '19 at 03:26

Iain Shelvington · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-25T20:48:39.640

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In your ModelAdmin definition you can override the function has_delete_permission. If you wish to remove the delete button for all users you can just return False

def has_delete_permission(self, request, obj=None):
    return False

I would suggest however that you allow superusers to still be able to delete

def has_delete_permission(self, request, obj=None):
    return request.user.is_superuser()

edited Oct 25 '21 at 20:48

answered Jul 09 '19 at 03:24

Iain Shelvington

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`def has_delete_permission(self, request, obj=None): return False` worked – macieksk Nov 27 '20 at 09:54
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To clarify; this does **not** *hide* or *remove* the delete button. This makes the user not able to delete the object. This can be a problem for objects that are suppose to be implicitly deleted due to deleting a related object when having `on_delete=CASCADE`. – Ted Klein Bergman Dec 22 '20 at 15:48

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 31 '22 at 11:17

You can override the function has_delete_permission to prevent deletion

def has_delete_permission(self, request, obj=None):
    return False

Overriding has_delete_permission will prevent deletion in other model pages which have relation (with on_delete=models.CASCADE) to your model. To allow deletion in other pages but prevent the deletion in the model's admin page, You can conditionally return False like:

def has_delete_permission(self, request, obj=None):
    if f"{model._meta.app_label}/{model._meta.model_name}" in request.path:
        return False
    return True

How to remove DELETE button from django admin page

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