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 instructions on how to integrate with a Django date form field?

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

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 3

Django's TextInput widget (and all of its subclasses) support specifying a type attribute to set the type of form.

You can use this to set the input type to date (W3C specification), for example in the following way :

date = fields.DateField(widget=forms.widgets.DateInput(attrs={'type': 'date'}))

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

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'}),
        }

Answer 6

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 7

I found this quite smooth for a DateTimeField friendly option https://github.com/asaglimbeni/django-datetime-widget

Needed to include bootstrap-timepicker css file from malot and it worked quite neatly.

Answer 8

This is what worked for me . I am using Django 1.11 with bootstrap 3.3 .

Form.py

from django.contrib.admin.widgets import AdminDateWidget

class AddInterview(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = models.Interview
        fields = ['candidate', 'date', 'position', 'question_set']

    date = forms.DateField(widget=AdminDateWidget())

Template:

    <form method="post">
        <div class="form-group">
            {% csrf_token %}
            {{ form.media }}
            {{ form.as_p }}
            <p>Note: Date format is yyyy-mm-dd</p>

        </div>

CSS: (In same above html template file)

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'admin/css/forms.css' %}"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'admin/css/widgets.css' %}"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" >

JS:(In same above html template file)

<script type="text/javascript" src="/admin/jsi18n/"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'admin/js/core.js' %}"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'admin/js/admin/RelatedObjectLookups.js' %}"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'admin/js/vendor/jquery/jquery.min.js' %}"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'admin/js/jquery.init.js' %}"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'admin/js/actions.min.js' %}"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'admin/js/calendar.js' %}"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="{% static 'admin/js/admin/DateTimeShortcuts.js' %}"></script>

Answer 9

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 10

Use datetime-local as type for the input.Its not very fancy looking.But will do the Job

Hope this helps.

Answer 11

This is what i do to get datepicker in django forms.

install bootstrap_datepicker_plus by pip command.

pip install django-bootstrap_datepicker_plus

forms.py

from .models import Hello
from django import forms
from bootstrap_datepicker_plus import DatePickerInput

class CreateForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Hello
        fields =[            
            "Date",
        ]

    widgets = {
        'Date': DatePickerInput(),
    }

settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'bootstrap_datepicker_plus',
]

Answer 12

Here's an ultra simple way using just html5 and django:

forms.py

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

class DateForm(forms.Form):
    start_date = forms.DateField(widget=DateInput)
    end_date = forms.DateField(widget=DateInput)

Views.py

def search_dates(request, pk=''):
    if request.method == "GET": # select dates in calendar
        form = DateForm()
        return render(request, 'search.html', {"form":form})
    if request.method == "POST": # create cart from selected dates
        form = DateForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            start = form.cleaned_data['start_date']
            end = form.cleaned_data['end_date']
            start_date = datetime.strftime(start, "%Y-%m-%d")
            end_date = datetime.strftime(end, "%Y-%m-%d")
            print(start_date)
            print(end_date)
    return render(request, 'search.html', {"form":form})

Template

 <form  method="post">
        {% csrf_token %}
        {{ form.as_table }}
        <p style="text-align: center"><input type="submit" value="Search"></p>
 </form>