# Date picker (intial value and best practices) **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Tags:** design, ui, date\_picker\ **Created:** [July 9, 2021, 7:56am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/date-picker-intial-value-and-best-practices/1386994 "2021-07-09T07:56:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alex\_ezacae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@alex\_ezacae](https://community.thunkable.com/u/alex_ezacae)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 7:56am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/date-picker-intial-value-and-best-practices/1386994/1 "2021-07-09T07:56:53Z")
Hello all, I am using the D&D UI for a project and I have a page with the profil of my user with its birthday. I wonder if it is possible to set the date picker with an intial value that i have in a app variable ? In fact for UI consistency I put the birthdate in a text input because the date input looks totally different than others. Do you have exemples of nice forms with date input because what I am doing is very very ugly ☹ Thanks for you help !!! ---
**Author:** ![Balanced\_Kitchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Balanced\_Kitchen](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Balanced_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 10:46am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/date-picker-intial-value-and-best-practices/1386994/2 "2021-07-09T10:46:35Z")
I know it’s not for a birthday, but I think it looks attractive. ![119450600_327269615356394_4607859441978506862_n](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/b/a/ba55787fffaea0dcc6122153cf7da68163738a46.png) ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/date-picker-intial-value-and-best-practices/1386994/3 "2024-11-08T13:19:49Z")