A HTML5 date django widget to apply to date form fields.

django_widget_html5_date.py

from django import forms

# https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/forms/widgets.py
class HTML5DateWidget(forms.widgets.Input):
    input_type = 'date'
    template_name = 'django/forms/widgets/date.html'

    
    
# Example:
class Blog(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = models.Blog
        fields = "__all__"
        widgets = {'submit_date': HTML5DateWidget()}

# It renders:
# <input name="submit_date" required="" id="id_submit_date" type="date">