Replace foreign key dropdown with textbox with add/edit icon - Django

Related to foreign key fields in the Django Admin, the default display element is a drop down list box containing all of the foreign key items from the related model. I my app it will contain thousands of items and I am looking to change the admin interface and have it use a text box instead of the populated drop down.

Looking for textbox with add/edit icon next to it, so that we dont get populated values, we just directly add or edit.

Is there any way around to achieve it.

You can try use custom Form and realize custom Widget on this form field. (I use for this desicion 3rd party library django_select2)

from django import forms
from django_select2.forms import ModelSelect2Widget


class KeyWidget(ModelSelect2Widget):
    model = ModelToKey
    search_fields = ['field__icontains']

    def label_from_instance(self, obj):
        return u'{}'.format(obj.field)


class CustomForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = ModelWithKey
        fields = ('foreign_key_field')
        widgets = {
            'foreign_key_field': KeyWidget(attrs={'style': 'width:550px'}),
            }

In also you can overload Form __init__ for customize queryset of objects for choosing in this field.