Creating year dropdown in Django template

Question

I want to create a year dropdown in django template. The dropdown would contain start year as 2011, and end year should be 5 years from current year.

For ex: If today i see the dropdwon it will show me years ranging from 2011, 2012, 2013,...2017.

It can be done by sending a list from views.py and looping it in the template or defining inside forms.py.

But i don't want to use any form here. I just have to show it in a template.

How can i do it in Django template.

Solution 1

In your models.py...

import datetime

year_dropdown = []
for y in range(2011, (datetime.datetime.now().year + 5)):
    year_dropdown.append((y, y))

So, your field can now use year_dropdown:

year = models.IntegerField(_('year'), max_length=4, choices=year_dropdown, default=datetime.datetime.now().year)

Which sets the current year as the default value.

If all you want is the values in the template, then do something like the following...

<select id="year">
{% for y in range(2011, (datetime.datetime.now().year + 5)) %}
    <option value="{{ y }}">{{ y }}</option>
{% endfor %}
</select>

For more details, read the Django template language documentation.

Solution 2

If all you want is a simply a drop down of years itself, you can do what @Nick or @Ian suggested. In case you want some calendar type functionality (Date picker) you can have a look at JQuery UI DatePicker