Django calendar widget in a custom form

Question

I am trying to add a calendar date input to one of my forms. There is a wonderful calendar widget that Django uses on its admin pages, but I can\'t figure out how to add it to a

Answer 1

All widgets used by django-admin are in the django/contrib/admin/widgets.py file. Just use that as a usual widget in a form. What you want is AdminDateWidget.

from django.contrib.admin.widgets import AdminDateWidget
from django.forms.fields import DateField

class MyForm(Form):
    my_field = DateField(widget=AdminDateWidget)

That will create a date-picker with calendar. You may try to customize it to what you need by extending it or create a new widget from a scratch with an inspiration from AdminDateWidget.