Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

#21470 closed New feature (wontfix)

Make DateInput and DateTimeInput render as a html5 field type="date" and type="datetime"

Reported by: Troy Grosfield Owned by: nobody
Component: Forms Version: 1.6
Severity: Normal Keywords: datetime, date, widgets, inputs
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

One of my favorite changes to django 1.6 was making all the form inputs render to html5 types:

The default widgets for EmailField, URLField, IntegerField, FloatField and DecimalField 
use the new type attributes available in HTML5 (type='email', type='url', type='number'). 
Note that due to erratic support of the number input type with localized numbers in 
current browsers, Django only uses it when numeric fields are not localized.

So the big question here is why was the date and datetime fields left out if they all just fall back to rendering as text inputs anyway?

The untested change I think is simply:

class DateInput(DateTimeBaseInput):
    format_key = 'DATE_INPUT_FORMATS'
    input_type = 'date'

and

class DateTimeInput(DateTimeBaseInput):
    format_key = 'DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS'
    input_type = 'datetime'

Change History (3)

comment:1 by Troy Grosfield, 11 years ago

Created the pull request for this change:

comment:2 by Tim Graham, 11 years ago

I believe this was intentionally omitted. Have you read the discussion on the ticket?

comment:3 by Troy Grosfield, 11 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

I figured there was a reason for it, but I didn't see the discussion on the ticket for it. Thanks for the heads up timo.

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