Django 2.0 ModelForm dateField not displaying as a widget

Question

I have a fairly simple model form with a 'date_of_birth' input value of type datefield(). For whatever reason, I cannot get it to display as a widget and can only get it to display as a text input.

Here is my form code: from django import forms from . import models from django.contrib.admin import widgets

class CreateNewPatient(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = models.PatientInfo
        fields = ['first_name', 'nickname','last_name',
            'date_of_birth', 'school_grade', 'sex', 'school']

Here is my model:

class PatientInfo(models.Model):
    #first name, last name,nickname, and date of birth
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    nickname = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    date_of_birth = models.DateField(auto_now=False, auto_now_add=False)
    school_grade = models.CharField(max_length=15, blank=True)

Here is my template. It is based on a base template and is using the bootstrap4 plugin:

{% block content %}
<!--Form Container-->
<div class="container">
    <form  action="{% url 'patientRecords:new_patient' %}" method="post" 
         class="form">
        {% csrf_token %}
        {% bootstrap_form form %}
        {% buttons %}
        <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button>
        {% endbuttons %}
    </form>
</div>
{% endblock %}

Like I said, the form displays the date of birth field as a text box. How do I make it display as the normal django date widget with bootstrap styling?

Answer 1

class Meta:
    model = CreateNewPatient
    fields = ['first_name', 'nickname','last_name',
        'date_of_birth', 'school_grade', 'sex', 'school']
    widgets = {
        'date_of_birth': forms.DateInput(format=('%m/%d/%Y'), attrs={'class':'form-control', 'placeholder':'Select a date', 'type':'date'}),
    }

That's how I got mine to work. Hope it helps!

should look something like this:enter image description here