I am new to Django and looking to do something simple.
I have a date database field and I am trying to get Django to display it as a 'date' widget in the HTML forms.
Following is my code:
models.py
from django.db import models
class DateF(models.Model):
edate = models.DateField()
forms.py
from django.forms import ModelForm
from django import forms
from .models import DateF
class DateForm(forms.ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = DateF
fields = ['edate']
views.py
from django.shortcuts import render
from .forms import DateForm
def index(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
pass
else:
form = DateForm()
return render(request, 'datef/index.html',{'form':form})
Template file
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Date field test</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="width: 600px;margin: auto;">
<h2>Date field</h2>
<form method="post">
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.as_p }}
</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The above displayed a text input field.
I tried the following in my forms.py based on the following and still could not get it to work.
from django.forms import ModelForm
from django import forms
from .models import DateF
from django.forms import fields as formfields
from django.contrib.admin import widgets
class DateForm(forms.ModelForm):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super(DateForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
self.fields['edate'].widget = widgets.AdminDateWidget()
class Meta:
model = DateF
fields = ['edate']
What am I missing? Do I need to provide any JavaScript?
