I'm trying to set a date as the value of a date input in a form. But, as your may have guessed, it's not working.

Here's what I have in my template:

<div class="form-group"><label for="date" class="col-md-3 control-label">Date</label><div class="col-md-9"><input type="date" class="form-control" id="date" value="{{placement.date}}"></div>
</div>

And this is the view that calls it as well as the Placement model:

class Placement(models.Model):student = models.ForeignKey(Student)email = models.EmailField(max_length=254)fname = models.CharField(max_length=50)sname = models.CharField(max_length=50)cname = models.CharField(max_length=100)position = models.CharField(max_length=50)house = models.CharField(max_length=50, blank=True)street = models.CharField(max_length=50)town = models.CharField(max_length=50)county = models.CharField(max_length=50)postcode = models.CharField(max_length=8)phone = models.CharField(max_length=20)length = models.IntegerField(null=True)category = models.CharField(max_length=50)date = models.DateField(null=True)confirmed = models.BooleanField(default=False)completed = models.BooleanField(default=False)created = models.DateTimeField(null=True)def view_placement(request, placement_id):school = School.objects.get(pk=request.session['school'])context = {'school':school}if request.session['utype'] == 'a':context['user'] = Administrator.objects.get(pk=request.session['user'])context['placement'] = Placement.objects.get(pk=placement_id)return render(request, 'workxp/admin/view_placement.html', context)

But it doesn't display the date. Just an empty date input...

How can I fix this?

Thanks!

The HTML date should take the format YYYY-MM-DD. So you have to make a conversion using the {{ value|date:"D d M Y" }} command.

Your code will be:

 <input type="date" class="form-control" id="date" value="{{placement.date|date:"Y-m-d" }}">

HTML documentation here: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/input.date.html#input.date.attrs.value

Django date documentation here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/templates/builtins/#date