What's the cleanest, simplest-to-get running datepicker in Django?

Question

I love the Thauber Schedule datepicker, but it\'s a datetime picker and I can\'t get it to just do dates. Any recommendations for nice looking datepickers that come with ins

Answer 1

You can also simply use Jquery in your templates. The jquery DateTime Picker allows each customization.

http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/

Answer 2

I have been struggling with a similar problem and I found the following solution pleasing, using floppy forms:

• django floppy-forms datpicker, example

This works really well and is relatively easy to implement, hope someone will find it help full. Good luck.

Answer 3

Being newer to coding, I used this example due to it's ease.

<form method="POST">{% csrf_token %}        
    <p>Start date<input type = 'date'  name='start_date' ></p>
    <p>End date<input type = 'date'  name='end_date' ></p>
    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>

Answer 4

When it comes to date-pickers my choice is Bootstrap Datepicker. You can implement it in your django app by using django-bootstrap-datepicker-plus which works both on newer and older DJango versions. I maintain the repository and tested it working in DJango version 1.8, 1.10, 1.11 and 2.0.4.

The setup is quite easy. You just install it.

  pip install django-bootstrap-datepicker-plus

Import the widget in your forms.py file

    from bootstrap_datepicker_plus import DatePickerInput

Add the widget to your date field

    class ToDoForm(forms.Form):
        date = forms.DateField(
            widget=DatePickerInput(
                options={
                    "format": "mm/dd/yyyy",
                    "autoclose": True
                }
            )
        )

Detailed instructions are available on the django-bootstrap-datepicker-plus Github Page.

Disclaimer: This widget package is now owned and maintained by me. For any issues with it feel free to open issues on the Github Page.

Answer 5

Following is what I do, no external dependencies at all.:

models.py:

from django.db import models


class Promise(models):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=300)
    description = models.TextField(blank=True)
    made_on = models.DateField()

forms.py:

from django import forms
from django.forms import ModelForm

from .models import Promise


class DateInput(forms.DateInput):
    input_type = 'date'


class PromiseForm(ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = Promise
        fields = ['title', 'description', 'made_on']
        widgets = {
            'made_on': DateInput(),
        }

my view:

class PromiseCreateView(CreateView):
    model = Promise
    form_class = PromiseForm

And my template:

<form action="" method="post">{% csrf_token %}
    {{ form.as_p }}
    <input type="submit" value="Create" />
</form>

The date picker looks like this:

Answer 6

avi's solution can also be done without using an additional django input class:

class PromiseForm(ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = Promise
        fields = ['title', 'description', 'made_on']
        widgets = {
            'made_on': DateInput(attrs={'type': 'date'}),
        }