Some of my Django 1.3 models have DateField properties. When a form is generated, I'd like to use the jQuery UI Datepicker instead of a plain text field. I understand that I could create new widgets but I don't understand how. In addition, I am not sure if anything like this has already been done for Django (I googled it, no chance).
How to create a Django Widget that I can reuse across multiple models (and page) for the jQuery UI Datepicker?
JQueryUI has a very good date UI picker. You can get it here: http://jqueryui.com
Say for example you have the following form:
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.Please note that
myDate
is preceded byid_
. 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.