Django form.as_p DateField not showing input type as date

Question

Working on my first django app, and I have a model defined with some DateFields, and then a ModelForm off of that model i.e.

models.py

class MyModel(models.Model):     ...     my_date = models.DateField('my date')     ...  class MyModelForm(ModelForm):     class Meta:         model = MyModel         fields = '__all__' 

views.py

def show(request):     form = MyModelForm     template_name = 'myapp/show.html'     return render(request,template_name,{'form':form}) 

and then in my html I use the .as_p to have django render the form for me

<form action="/show/" method="post">{% csrf_token %} {{ form.as_p }} <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> </form> 

But the DateFields have input type text, not date. Is there a way to change this?

Answer 1

You can create a custom widget:

from django import forms  class DateInput(forms.DateInput):     input_type = 'date'  class MyModelForm(forms.ModelForm):     class Meta:         model = MyModel         fields = '__all__'         widgets = {             'my_date': DateInput()         } 

Answer 2

There's no need to subclass DateInput.

class MyModelForm(forms.ModelForm):     class Meta:         model = MyModel         fields = '__all__'         widgets = {             'my_date': DateInput(attrs={'type': 'date'})         }