# New Date Picker - Set Initial value text

**URL:** <https://community.weweb.io/t/new-date-picker-set-initial-value-text/693>\
**Category:** Ask us anything\
**Created:** [June 22, 2022, 3:11am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/new-date-picker-set-initial-value-text/693 "2022-06-22T03:11:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![kevinwasie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/kevinwasie/32/402_2.png) [@kevinwasie](https://community.weweb.io/u/kevinwasie)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 3:11am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/new-date-picker-set-initial-value-text/693/1 "2022-06-22T03:11:31Z")

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Is it possible to set the initial text of the date picker? By default, if you do not set a date, it reads “New Text” and I cannot find the place to change this.

The date picker is great, but in my UI, not entirely intuitive that a user needs to click on it to set it. So, I need to include text that says “Click here to set date”

![Screen Shot 2022-06-21 at 11.10.57 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/1X/e25f073efcab2a16da449dd63b687a8a191262e7.png)

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**Author:** ![Joyce](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/joyce/32/13232_2.png) [@Joyce](https://community.weweb.io/u/Joyce)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 8:27am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/new-date-picker-set-initial-value-text/693/2 "2022-06-22T08:27:44Z")

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Hi @kevinwasie 👋

Yes! You’ll need to go on the Text element in the Navigator:

 ![CleanShot 2022-06-22 at 10.26.00@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/1X/bf7b632f69271bbc45e85db474a9bb0f8c9431dd.png)

Note that I bound the text in my example above but you can also double click on the text in the button when the Text element is selected in the Navigator 🙂

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**Author:** ![kevinwasie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/kevinwasie/32/402_2.png) [@kevinwasie](https://community.weweb.io/u/kevinwasie)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2022, 9:43pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/new-date-picker-set-initial-value-text/693/3 "2022-06-22T21:43:10Z")

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@joyce Hmm… That is not an option in my IDE. I’ve tried logging out of WeWeb, and logging back in. But, I don’t have the text option.

 ![Screen Shot 2022-06-22 at 5.40.56 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/1X/129cf5f054d07f002ee9c2424b981e4b66cfbe86.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Joyce](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/joyce/32/13232_2.png) [@Joyce](https://community.weweb.io/u/Joyce)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2022, 6:51am UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/new-date-picker-set-initial-value-text/693/4 "2022-06-23T06:51:00Z")

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Ah yes, definitely not intuitive!

You first need to change the init value of the date picker to display the Text and get the text - en option in the settings.

Here’s a [short video](https://www.loom.com/share/bc8ec302a0f44c6daf071cec1213dd9a).

I’ll add your feedback to our user research so the tech team can determine if we can improve the UX.