diff --git a/django/forms/fields.py b/django/forms/fields.py
index 8a3dbfeb498..9fbbce107cf 100644
--- a/django/forms/fields.py
+++ b/django/forms/fields.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from django.core import validators
 from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError
 from django.forms.util import ErrorList, from_current_timezone, to_current_timezone
 from django.forms.widgets import (
-    TextInput, PasswordInput, EmailInput, HiddenInput,
+    TextInput, PasswordInput, EmailInput, URLInput, HiddenInput,
     MultipleHiddenInput, ClearableFileInput, CheckboxInput, Select,
     NullBooleanSelect, SelectMultiple, DateInput, DateTimeInput, TimeInput,
     SplitDateTimeWidget, SplitHiddenDateTimeWidget, FILE_INPUT_CONTRADICTION
@@ -612,6 +612,7 @@ class ImageField(FileField):
         return f
 
 class URLField(CharField):
+    widget = URLInput
     default_error_messages = {
         'invalid': _('Enter a valid URL.'),
     }
diff --git a/django/forms/widgets.py b/django/forms/widgets.py
index f201e914dd2..e906ed5bc6d 100644
--- a/django/forms/widgets.py
+++ b/django/forms/widgets.py
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
 from django.utils import datetime_safe, formats, six
 
 __all__ = (
-    'Media', 'MediaDefiningClass', 'Widget', 'TextInput', 'EmailInput', 'PasswordInput',
+    'Media', 'MediaDefiningClass', 'Widget', 'TextInput',
+    'EmailInput', 'URLInput', 'PasswordInput',
     'HiddenInput', 'MultipleHiddenInput', 'ClearableFileInput',
     'FileInput', 'DateInput', 'DateTimeInput', 'TimeInput', 'Textarea', 'CheckboxInput',
     'Select', 'NullBooleanSelect', 'SelectMultiple', 'RadioSelect',
@@ -255,6 +256,10 @@ class EmailInput(TextInput):
     input_type = 'email'
 
 
+class URLInput(TextInput):
+    input_type = 'url'
+
+
 class PasswordInput(TextInput):
     input_type = 'password'
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/api.txt b/docs/ref/forms/api.txt
index 44e4684c1dd..4c5c2758062 100644
--- a/docs/ref/forms/api.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/forms/api.txt
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ precedence::
     >>> f = CommentForm(initial={'name': 'instance'}, auto_id=False)
     >>> print(f)
     <tr><th>Name:</th><td><input type="text" name="name" value="instance" /></td></tr>
-    <tr><th>Url:</th><td><input type="text" name="url" /></td></tr>
+    <tr><th>Url:</th><td><input type="url" name="url" /></td></tr>
     <tr><th>Comment:</th><td><input type="text" name="comment" /></td></tr>
 
 Accessing "clean" data
diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt b/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt
index 8bfe77cc20a..2e4e779f0c4 100644
--- a/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/forms/fields.txt
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ We've specified ``auto_id=False`` to simplify the output::
     >>> f = CommentForm(auto_id=False)
     >>> print(f)
     <tr><th>Your name:</th><td><input type="text" name="name" /></td></tr>
-    <tr><th>Your Web site:</th><td><input type="text" name="url" /></td></tr>
+    <tr><th>Your Web site:</th><td><input type="url" name="url" /></td></tr>
     <tr><th>Comment:</th><td><input type="text" name="comment" /></td></tr>
 
 ``initial``
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ field is initialized to a particular value. For example::
     >>> f = CommentForm(auto_id=False)
     >>> print(f)
     <tr><th>Name:</th><td><input type="text" name="name" value="Your name" /></td></tr>
-    <tr><th>Url:</th><td><input type="text" name="url" value="http://" /></td></tr>
+    <tr><th>Url:</th><td><input type="url" name="url" value="http://" /></td></tr>
     <tr><th>Comment:</th><td><input type="text" name="comment" /></td></tr>
 
 You may be thinking, why not just pass a dictionary of the initial values as
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ and the HTML output will include any validation errors::
     >>> f = CommentForm(default_data, auto_id=False)
     >>> print(f)
     <tr><th>Name:</th><td><input type="text" name="name" value="Your name" /></td></tr>
-    <tr><th>Url:</th><td><ul class="errorlist"><li>Enter a valid URL.</li></ul><input type="text" name="url" value="http://" /></td></tr>
+    <tr><th>Url:</th><td><ul class="errorlist"><li>Enter a valid URL.</li></ul><input type="url" name="url" value="http://" /></td></tr>
     <tr><th>Comment:</th><td><ul class="errorlist"><li>This field is required.</li></ul><input type="text" name="comment" /></td></tr>
 
 This is why ``initial`` values are only displayed for unbound forms. For bound
@@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ For each field, we describe the default widget used if you don't specify
 
 .. class:: URLField(**kwargs)
 
-    * Default widget: :class:`TextInput`
+    * Default widget: :class:`URLInput`
     * Empty value: ``''`` (an empty string)
     * Normalizes to: A Unicode object.
     * Validates that the given value is a valid URL.
diff --git a/docs/ref/forms/widgets.txt b/docs/ref/forms/widgets.txt
index 9105a41b255..cb5224fd3c5 100644
--- a/docs/ref/forms/widgets.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/forms/widgets.txt
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ provided for each widget will be rendered exactly the same::
     >>> f = CommentForm(auto_id=False)
     >>> f.as_table()
     <tr><th>Name:</th><td><input type="text" name="name" /></td></tr>
-    <tr><th>Url:</th><td><input type="text" name="url"/></td></tr>
+    <tr><th>Url:</th><td><input type="url" name="url"/></td></tr>
     <tr><th>Comment:</th><td><input type="text" name="comment" /></td></tr>
 
 On a real Web page, you probably don't want every widget to look the same. You
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Django will then include the extra attributes in the rendered output:
     >>> f = CommentForm(auto_id=False)
     >>> f.as_table()
     <tr><th>Name:</th><td><input type="text" name="name" class="special"/></td></tr>
-    <tr><th>Url:</th><td><input type="text" name="url"/></td></tr>
+    <tr><th>Url:</th><td><input type="url" name="url"/></td></tr>
     <tr><th>Comment:</th><td><input type="text" name="comment" size="40"/></td></tr>
 
 .. _styling-widget-classes:
@@ -403,6 +403,15 @@ These widgets make use of the HTML elements ``input`` and ``textarea``.
 
     Text input: ``<input type="email" ...>``
 
+``URLInput``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. class:: URLInput
+
+    .. versionadded:: 1.6
+
+    Text input: ``<input type="url" ...>``
+
 ``PasswordInput``
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.6.txt b/docs/releases/1.6.txt
index 03341e586be..e0c07c40fe1 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.6.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.6.txt
@@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ Minor features
 * Added :meth:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet.earliest` for symmetry with
   :meth:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet.latest`.
 
-* The default widgets for :class:`~django.forms.EmailField` use
-  the new type attribute available in HTML5 (type='email').
+* The default widgets for :class:`~django.forms.EmailField` and
+  :class:`~django.forms.URLField` use the new type attributes available in
+  HTML5 (type='email', type='url').
 
 Backwards incompatible changes in 1.6
 =====================================
@@ -44,7 +45,7 @@ Backwards incompatible changes in 1.6
 
 * If your CSS/Javascript code used to access HTML input widgets by type, you
   should review it as ``type='text'`` widgets might be now output as
-  ``type='email'`` depending on their corresponding field type.
+  ``type='email'`` or ``type='url'`` depending on their corresponding field type.
 
 .. warning::
 
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests/fields.py b/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests/fields.py
index aa03377d442..fc7fc70da47 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests/fields.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/forms/tests/fields.py
@@ -639,6 +639,7 @@ class FieldsTests(SimpleTestCase):
 
     def test_urlfield_1(self):
         f = URLField()
+        self.assertWidgetRendersTo(f, '<input type="url" name="f" id="id_f" />')
         self.assertRaisesMessage(ValidationError, "'This field is required.'", f.clean, '')
         self.assertRaisesMessage(ValidationError, "'This field is required.'", f.clean, None)
         self.assertEqual('http://localhost/', f.clean('http://localhost'))
@@ -690,6 +691,7 @@ class FieldsTests(SimpleTestCase):
 
     def test_urlfield_5(self):
         f = URLField(min_length=15, max_length=20)
+        self.assertWidgetRendersTo(f, '<input id="id_f" type="url" name="f" maxlength="20" />')
         self.assertRaisesMessage(ValidationError, "'Ensure this value has at least 15 characters (it has 13).'", f.clean, 'http://f.com')
         self.assertEqual('http://example.com/', f.clean('http://example.com'))
         self.assertRaisesMessage(ValidationError, "'Ensure this value has at most 20 characters (it has 38).'", f.clean, 'http://abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com')
diff --git a/tests/regressiontests/generic_inline_admin/tests.py b/tests/regressiontests/generic_inline_admin/tests.py
index fea30b4946b..f03641d292b 100644
--- a/tests/regressiontests/generic_inline_admin/tests.py
+++ b/tests/regressiontests/generic_inline_admin/tests.py
@@ -102,22 +102,22 @@ class GenericAdminViewTest(TestCase):
         # Works with no queryset
         formset = EpisodeMediaFormSet(instance=e)
         self.assertEqual(len(formset.forms), 5)
-        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[0].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url" type="text" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url" value="http://example.com/podcast.mp3" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-id" value="%s" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-id" /></p>' % self.mp3_media_pk)
-        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[1].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url" type="text" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url" value="http://example.com/logo.png" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-id" value="%s" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-id" /></p>' % self.png_media_pk)
-        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[2].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-url" type="text" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-url" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-id" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-id" /></p>')
+        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[0].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url" type="url" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url" value="http://example.com/podcast.mp3" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-id" value="%s" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-id" /></p>' % self.mp3_media_pk)
+        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[1].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url" type="url" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url" value="http://example.com/logo.png" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-id" value="%s" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-id" /></p>' % self.png_media_pk)
+        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[2].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-url" type="url" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-url" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-id" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-id" /></p>')
 
         # A queryset can be used to alter display ordering
         formset = EpisodeMediaFormSet(instance=e, queryset=Media.objects.order_by('url'))
         self.assertEqual(len(formset.forms), 5)
-        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[0].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url" type="text" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url" value="http://example.com/logo.png" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-id" value="%s" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-id" /></p>' % self.png_media_pk)
-        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[1].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url" type="text" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url" value="http://example.com/podcast.mp3" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-id" value="%s" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-id" /></p>' % self.mp3_media_pk)
-        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[2].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-url" type="text" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-url" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-id" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-id" /></p>')
+        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[0].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url" type="url" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url" value="http://example.com/logo.png" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-id" value="%s" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-id" /></p>' % self.png_media_pk)
+        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[1].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url" type="url" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url" value="http://example.com/podcast.mp3" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-id" value="%s" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-id" /></p>' % self.mp3_media_pk)
+        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[2].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-url" type="url" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-url" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-id" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-2-id" /></p>')
 
         # Works with a queryset that omits items
         formset = EpisodeMediaFormSet(instance=e, queryset=Media.objects.filter(url__endswith=".png"))
         self.assertEqual(len(formset.forms), 4)
-        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[0].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url" type="text" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url" value="http://example.com/logo.png" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-id" value="%s" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-id" /></p>' % self.png_media_pk)
-        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[1].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url" type="text" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-id" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-id" /></p>')
+        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[0].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url" type="url" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-url" value="http://example.com/logo.png" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-id" value="%s" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-0-id" /></p>' % self.png_media_pk)
+        self.assertHTMLEqual(formset.forms[1].as_p(), '<p><label for="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url">Url:</label> <input id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url" type="url" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-url" maxlength="200" /><input type="hidden" name="generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-id" id="id_generic_inline_admin-media-content_type-object_id-1-id" /></p>')
 
     def testGenericInlineFormsetFactory(self):
         # Regression test for #10522.