Localize.Inputs.Date

Locale-aware date form input components for Phoenix LiveView, built on top of localize, calendrical, and localize_inputs_core. For number and unit-of-measure inputs install localize_number_inputs alongside.

Features

• <.date_input> — locale-formatted text input and popup calendar grid. Accepts the locale's CLDR short, medium, long and full date patterns plus ISO-8601.

• <.date_range_input> and <.date_range_picker> — two-date pickers with a unified popover. Validates min and max bounds, span, and weekday restrictions.

• Multi-calendar — a :calendar attribute takes a calendar module, such as Calendrical.Hebrew, Calendrical.Japanese or Calendrical.Islamic.Civil, and defaults to Calendar.ISO. Users type dates in that calendar and the server parses them in it.

Supported Elixir and OTP versions

Requires Elixir 1.17 and OTP 26 or later.

Installation

def deps do
  [
    {:localize_datetime_inputs, "~> 0.3"},

    # Activate the HEEx components:
    {:phoenix_html, "~> 4.0"},
    {:phoenix_live_view, "~> 1.0"}
  ]
end

Quick start

<.date_input form={@form} field={:dob} />

<.date_input
  form={@form}
  field={:start_date}
  min={~D[2026-01-01]}
  max={~D[2026-12-31]}
  display_format={:long}
/>

<.date_range_input form={@form} field={:vacation} />

<.date_input form={@form} field={:dob} calendar={Calendrical.Hebrew} locale={:"he-IL"} />

Import via import Localize.Inputs.Date.Components in your view module. Parse server-side via Localize.Inputs.Date.Parser.parse_date/2 or Calendrical.Date.parse/2.

A :calendar is always a calendar module, never a CLDR calendar type: one CLDR type can name several calendars — :gregorian names both Calendar.ISO and Calendrical.Gregorian — so calendar={:hebrew} is refused rather than resolved on your behalf.

CSS

@import "../../deps/localize_inputs_core/priv/static/localize_inputs_core.css";
@import "../../deps/localize_datetime_inputs/priv/static/localize_datetime_inputs.css";

The token set is in localize_inputs_core; this package just adds component-specific rules.

JS

import Hooks from "../../deps/localize_datetime_inputs/priv/static/localize_datetime_inputs.js"

new LiveSocket("/live", Socket, {
  hooks: { DatePicker: Hooks.DatePicker, DateRangePicker: Hooks.RangePicker }
})

The date picker grid uses the browser's built-in Intl.DateTimeFormat — no additional JS peer dependencies. Without the hooks loaded the input still works as a plain text field; the server-side parser accepts whatever the user typed on submit.

Documentation

• Localize.Inputs.Date.Components — the <.date_input>, <.date_range_input> and <.date_range_picker> components and their attributes.

• Localize.Inputs.Date.Components.DatePickerLive — the server-rendered multi-calendar grid.

• Localize.Inputs.Date.Parser — server-side parsing of a locale-formatted date string.

• Localize.Inputs.Date.Validator — bounds, span and weekday validation of a parsed date.

Full documentation is at https://hexdocs.pm/localize_datetime_inputs.

License

Apache-2.0. See LICENSE.md.