<html>
<head>
<title>Date picker works for all browsers(IE, Firefox, Chrome)</title>
<script>
var datefield = document.createElement("input")
datefield.setAttribute("type", "date")
if (datefield.type != "date") { // if browser doesn't support input type="date", load files for jQuery UI Date Picker
document.write('<link href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />\n')
document.write('<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js"><\/script>\n')
document.write('<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js"><\/script>\n')
}
</script>
<script>
if (datefield.type != "date") { // if browser doesn't support input type="date", initialize date picker widget:
jQuery(function($) { // on document.ready
$('#start_date').datepicker({
dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd'
});
$('#end_date').datepicker({
dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd'
});
})
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input name="start_date" id="start_date" type="date" required>
<input name="end_date" id="end_date" required>
</body>
</html>