title: How do I use a datepicker on a simple Django form?
body: <p>Before you mark this as a duplicate to the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38601/using-django-time-date-widgets-in-custom-form">most famous django datepicker question on SO</a>, hear me out. I have gone through all the questions in the first ten pages of the search results, but no one seems to be explaining anything from the beginning. </p>
  
  <p>What I am looking for is the most simple way to have a datepicker on my form, I don't know if the most simple way is importing it from Admin or using an existing jQuery thing, but whatever it is, can someone please explain step by step like you would do to a baby? This, I believe will help any new programmer like me out there who's looking to learn. This is what I have so far. </p>
  
  <p>My Form:</p>
  
  <pre><code>class SampleForm(forms.Form):
      date_of_birth = forms.DateField(label='Enter Date') 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My View:</p>
  
  <pre><code>def dlp_test(request):
      form = SampleForm()
      return render(request, 'dlp_test.html', {'form': form})
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My Template:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form action="/your-name/" method="post"&gt;
      {% csrf_token %}
      {{ form }}
      &lt;input type="submit" value="Submit" /&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is the most simple setup anyone can start from, how do I take it from here? When someone clicks on the datefield in the HTML, I want a calendar to pop up so that they can select a date.  </p>
  
  <p>If achieving this requires me to have locally stored JS or jQuery files, I'd prefer the URL be embedded in the HTML, rather than downloading and then mentioning the source, because my paths are messed up right now. You can assume that I don't have anything else downloaded or installed other than Django and Python. </p>