Display a series of dropdown lists with past dates in Django.

Question

I am using model forms in Django to allow the user to enter in their birthdate. I want to have the user select the date from a series of dropdown lists, one each for year, month, and day. Originally I thought that the SelectDateWidget would work. However that particular widget only displays dates in the future. I of course want to only display dates in the past.

Is there an easy way to do this? Thanks in advanced for the help.

Answer 1

SelectDateWidget isn't only for dates in the future. If you want dates in the past, you need to pass a different years argument into your widget, otherwise it uses the current year. So within your form, just do:

SelectDateWidget(years=range(1985, datetime.date.today().year+10))

It basically accepts a list of years, and using the range function works pretty well for that.

You can see how the widget works here