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I have almost no knowledge of web programming, but I have been tasked to solve something on my company's website. Apparently, I have an issue with browsers using HTML5 on a legacy site using type="date" and I need to find a way around it.
My site has a lot of date fields that the user must input like such:
<input type="date" name="DateStart" size="15" value="8/30/2011">
In every browser we currently use except Chrome, this works just fine. Chrome is the only browser that supplies rolling buttons to scroll through the date. What I see on the back end of this is an attempt to do this:
FormatDateTime(DateStart, 2)
I get an invalid date error which means that we cannot use Chrome to fill out this form. Is there a way around this problem?
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To set and get the input type date in dd-mm-yyyy format we will use <input> type attribute. The <input> type attribute is used to define a date picker or control field. In this attribute, you can set the range from which day-month-year to which day-month-year date can be selected from.
The date format in Chrome is derived from the language. This is set in Chrome three-points menu : Settings > Advanced > Languages. Use the "Add language" button to choose another variant of English that corresponds to your date preference.
<input type="date"> <input> elements of type="date" create input fields that let the user enter a date, either with a textbox that validates the input or a special date picker interface. The resulting value includes the year, month, and day, but not the time.
Actually chrome's support for 'date' is broken. (See here). At least for the moment.
The use of 'date' in the HTML is absolutely fine - browser's which do not know of or support an input type are supposed to fallback to type='text'.
Currently chrome partially supports date, in a way that is essentially broken (it adds a couple of up-down buttons, but no datepicker.)
Of course you do need to bear in mind that if you are using type='date', and if the browser supports it, then you'll want to disable whatever datepicker support you'd otherwise be using.
UPDATE (6 Feb 2012):
It looks to me like this is now fixed. Chrome no longer claims to support input type='date', and does not provide the partially complete implementation.
UPDATE (17 Aug 2012):
Chrome does now have input type="date" support, and it's more functional this time.
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