Django SelectDateWidget not rendering correctly

Question

I am trying to render the built-in SelectDateWidget in Django, however in the webpage it shows as

<django.forms.widgets.SelectDateWidget object at 0xb4f6bc6c> Submit

I am new to Django, I read the documentation and looked up on the internet, but couldn't came up with a solution.

Here is my,

views.py

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.forms.widgets import SelectDateWidget

def yillik(request):
    form = SelectDateWidget()
    return render(request, 'izinyillik.html', {'form': form})

izinyillik.html

<form method="post">
     {% csrf_token %}
     {{ form }}
     <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>

Where is your *actual* form? You cannot use a widget as a form. — malberts, Feb 21 '19 at 09:15

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 21 '19 at 09:15

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You can't use a widget on its own like that. A widget needs to live in a field, which in turn needs to live on a form. You need to declare them both:

class MyForm(forms.Form):
    my_field = forms.DateField(widget=SelectDateWidget)

answered Feb 21 '19 at 09:15

Daniel Roseman

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Yugandhar Chaudhari · Answer 2 · 2019-02-21T09:23:23.400

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Problem is you are rendering widget you should use form

Create a form

forms.py:

from django import forms
class MyForm(forms.Form):
    date= forms.DateField(widget=forms.extras.widgets.SelectDateWidget)

In views.py:

from django.shortcuts import render
from forms import MyForm
def yillik(request):
    form = MyForm()
    return render(request, 'izinyillik.html', {'form': form})

edited Feb 21 '19 at 09:23

answered Feb 21 '19 at 09:17

Yugandhar Chaudhari

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Django SelectDateWidget not rendering correctly

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