I want to show the string “YYYY/mm/dd” as the default value for a forms.DateField and treat that as an empty value, how can I do this?
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I want to show the string “YYYY/mm/dd” as the default value for a forms.DateField and treat that as an empty value, how can I do this?
Easiest way? Use HTML5
placeholderattribute (with JS support if you need to support browsers that don’t supportplaceholder). You can pass it insideattrsargument of the widget constructor.