How to use jQuery UI Datepicker as a Django Widget?
JQueryUI has a very good date UI picker.You can get it here: http://jqueryui.com
Say for example you have the following form:
class DateForm(forms.Form): myDate = forms.DateField()From here you want to bind the JQuery date widget to your field from within your template.
I am assuming here you are passing the DateForm to your template and your path(s) to JQuery are correct.
<head> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/themes/base/jquery.ui.all.css"> <script src="/jquery.js"></script> <script src="/ui/jquery.ui.core.js"></script> <script src="/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js"></script> <script src="/ui/jquery.ui.datepicker.js"></script> <script> $(function() { $( "#id_myDate" ).datepicker(); }); </script></head><body><p>Date: <input type="text" id="id_myDate"></p></body>Please note that myDate is preceded by id_. Django does this transparently so make sure you match it as such: id_myDate.
Hope this helps you.
You should look on DateInput - you'll need to inherit your widget from it. Also look on admin widgets - there are some JS appended. So take DateInput, add some JS and you're done.