Thank you Malcolm - and thanks for the suggestions on requesting help. I appreciate it.
On Apr 29, 6:45 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 01:04 +0000, Mike Thompson wrote: > > Thanks Henrik - > > > I'm actually trying to pass initial data (a default date). Right now, > > the widget defaults to 'January 1, 2007'... and renders HTML with > > 'selected' form attributes on that month, day and year. I would like > > to pass, for example, '2007-04-15', to the render method of the > > SelectDateWidget and have the 'selected's appear next to April, 15 and > > 2007. i can get this working in the python interpreter window, but > > not within a django template. Thanks again for your suggestions. > > For the future, you keep hinting that you have something that almost > does what you want or works in one case but not the other, but you > aren't showing any code. So it's a bit hard to correct what you're > attempting and sometimes it's easier for somebody to see how to modify > what you've already tried. > > In any case, here's an example of constructing a form that will select > the initial date: > > class Example(Form): > date = DateField(label='date', initial='2007-04-29', > widget=extras.SelectDateWidget(years=range(2007, 2000, -1))) > > If you create an instance of this form and render it, the initial value > is selected, as expected. The "initial" attribute is documented at the > top of newforms.field.Field. > > You can also set it at a later point in time by just poking into the > "initial" attribute on the Field sub-classes. The attribute isn't used > or modified until render time. > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
