Is there a 3-dropdown (month, day, year) date widget that can be used out of the box with Django?

Using Django Forms & APIs
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This is what I had in mind (link):
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or this from MDN:
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Unfortunately the native HTML <input type="date"> is not accessible enough, and I wouldn’t like to re-invent the wheel if possible. (The first is a jQuery snippet, but I don’t want to use jQuery, and the second is quite buggy.)

Thank you in advance for any suggestions!

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Feel like an idiot because there is even an example of SelectDateWidget (which does exactly what I need), but didn’t realize it as I just scanned the Widget docs.

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Don’t. (“Feel like an idiot”) There’s a lot in Django and it’s easy to overlook / forget stuff.

I’ve been using Django consistently now for just about 10 years, and you can see how many things I forget or have overlooked by the number of times my responses get corrected by people more knowledgeable than me. (As was the case here, since I saw your question and didn’t think of that either. :slight_smile:)

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