Possible? Free form date input w/presets and no auto-open date picker

[gab6y]

New to Mantine and loving it so far. Trying to leverage as much OOTB as possible. Goal is to have a date input that:

1. allows free form date input (✅ DateInput ❌ DatePickerInput )
2. supports presets (❌ DateInput ✅ DatePickerInput)
3. doesn't auto-open date picker on focus (❌ DateInput ✅ DatePickerInput)

If I'm reading the docs right, this doesn't seem possible. I have to roll my own. Unlike combobox, I'm unable to control opened state.

Or am I missing something?

[atareversei]

As far as I know, Mantine doesn’t have a single component that covers all your needs. DatePickerInput works more like a button with a dropdown, so it’s no use for free-form typing. On the other hand, DateInput lets you type freely but doesn’t support presets. So for your first use case, DatePickerInput won’t work, and for the second, DateInput falls short. I think instead of implementing it on your own, Mantine should add presets to its DateInput component.

[gab6y]

Yep, rolled my own that has the best of both worlds. Thanks for confirming!

[JackWilb]

I'd be happy to see DateInput add presets. From a brief look at the source code, it seems like this might be possible by unifying the implementations of DateInput and DatePicker — at least insofar as unifying the calendar view.

[theTaikun]

I found this discussion because the docs say DateInput supports presets, but it wasn't working for me at all

Turns out I have either really great or really terrible timing, because it was committed just a few hours ago in 9bb9829