Opened 3 years ago
Last modified 14 months ago
#33113 assigned Cleanup/optimization
Add example to documentation of a DateInput with input_type='date' — at Initial Version
Reported by: | dennisvang | Owned by: | nobody |
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Component: | Documentation | Version: | dev |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Accepted | |
Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | yes |
Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
Rationale
By default, the forms.widgets.DateInput
widget renders as a simple text field.
However, a "date picker", like the one implemented in contrib.admin is often much more convenient.
Fortunately it is now possible to take advantage of the browser's built-in date picker, using the HTML <input type='date'> element.
The only problem is that, although the default DateInput
can be easily modified to use the <input type='date'>
element, this may not be so obvious to people unfamiliar with the inner workings of Django (e.g. forms.widgets.Input.input_type).
Moreover, some people may not even know the HTML type='date'
exists, nor that browsers have built-in date pickers.
Request
I believe it would be very helpful if the documentation included an example, like these two provided by Tim Graham in ticket #33100:
class DateInput(forms.DateInput): input_type = 'date'
or
DateInput(attrs={'type': 'date'})
This has the additional advantage of documenting the use of the forms.widgets.Input.input_type
attribute, which appears in the documentation but is not mentioned explicitly in the text, as far as I see.
If necessary, I would be willing to prepare a pull request for this.