Remove background arrow from date input in Google Chrome v20

Question

Since Google Chrome v20 a new calendar has been added to date inputs. The issue with this is that I'm using javascript to create my own calendar and I have an icon already in the same position as the default chrome arrow.

I was wondering how can I remove the arrow background?

Answer 1

As far as I know you can't disable it at the moment. There is a discussion going on here: https://plus.google.com/102860501900098846931/posts/hTcMLVNKnec

Perhaps they will add some -webkit selectors to control the styling.

For now you might have to use <input type="text"> instead.

EDIT:

As per Jeremy's answer, it is now possible to remove the arrow and spin buttons. Details can be found on webkit.org: Styling Form Controls - WebKit

The CSS to hide the controls is:

<input type="date" class="unstyled" />  .unstyled::-webkit-inner-spin-button, .unstyled::-webkit-calendar-picker-indicator {     display: none;     -webkit-appearance: none; } 

However, this will only hide and not disable the native calendar! - you can still activate the calendar by pressing Alt+Down Arrow (at least on Windows).

To disable, you need to add a little JavaScript as described on the above webkit.org page:

<input type="date" id="dateInput" class="unstyled" />  dateInput.addEventListener('keydown', function(event) {     if (event.keyIdentifier == "Down") {         event.preventDefault()     } }, false); 

You can see it working in this jsfiddle.

Answer 2

As of this writing, webkit has introduced controls to handle this:

input[type="date"]::-webkit-calendar-picker-indicator{     /* Your CSS here */ } input[type="date"]::-webkit-inner-spin-button {     /* Your CSS here */ } 

So, for this particular issue, it would be:

input[type="date"]::-webkit-calendar-picker-indicator, input[type="date"]::-webkit-inner-spin-button{     display: none; }