Overriding or changing HTML generated by date_select?

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Hi,

I'm looking for a way to customize the HTML forms generated by date_select. I'm especially keen on replacing the year and possibly day input by a simple text field, since honestly, I find listboxes for years to be quite retarded (if I wanted client-side validation, there would be better ways to do that instead of having people try and find their year of birth in a list of approximately a hundred entries). Is there a way to do that without manually hardcoding form fields in the view?

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You can hack ActiveView::Helpers::DateHelper if you'd like, or wrap date_select in a helper of your own and manipulate the output there, but I suspect you'll do just as well without it.

Take a look at this railscast:

I think Ryan Bates shows how to do almost exactly what you want.

- Martin

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> I'm looking for a way to customize the HTML forms generated by > date_select.

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Take a look at this railscast:#32 Time in Text Field - RailsCasts

Thanks a lot, that looks like a good point to start from. They need to make those casts more search-friendly in some way, all that web searches turned up were JScript calendars.