The choice is not a widget per se. The date-time in the model will accept a date time input, however, the calendar icon is a widget, and doesn't come automatically. The date-time has to accept a date, and if you input the date in the textbox in the accepted django format, it will work fine. To have the calendar icon, it is a widget, and you ycan call it by editing the HTML input type, or adding the widget to the views.py
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, 16:49 Anil Felipe Duggirala, <anilduggir...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 8, 2021, at 8:41 AM, MR INDIA wrote: > > Answer to this query on stack overflow > > < > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27321692/override-a-django-generic-class-based-view-widget > > > > Raw link: > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27321692/override-a-django-generic-class-based-view-widget > > Hope this helps, > > Thanks very much for the link MR INDIA. > That is exactly what Im looking to do, however, its not working for me for > some reason. > How can I check if I am getting the desired result in my rendered HTML? > I am working with a DateTimeField. So I should be getting a > type='datetime' in the <input> tag correct? > > I don't understand why other fields like a CharField with choices, > automatically, renders a <select> tag on my form, without even specifying a > widget for it as described in the link. Is it not expected that a > DateTimeField would render the type:'datetime' in the html form? (without > any additional modifications). The link above was created 6 years ago, has > this not changed in all that time? > > I will show you what I have: > > --models.py-- > class Lesson(models.Model): > ... > time = models.DateTimeField("Fecha y Hora") > > --views.py-- > class LessonCreateView(CreateView): > model = Lesson > template_name = 'new_lesson.html' > form_class = LessonForm > > def form_valid(self, form): # new > form.instance.instructor = self.request.user > return super().form_valid(form) > > --forms.py-- > class LessonForm(forms.ModelForm): > > class Meta: > model = Lesson > fields = ['title', 'time', 'nivel'] > widgets = { > 'time': forms.DateTimeInput() > } > > In my rendered HTML I however get a type="text" for the 'time' field. > Thanks very much for your help. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/e60942df-354c-44a6-b041-e132aa61566a%40www.fastmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CACq4Q2ZOr4M5rshJm7CGEnoo8pyc5ytNLV8CHbVsP2rXRBmhPg%40mail.gmail.com.
