I'm working with HTML5 elements input attributes and only Google Chrome supports the date, time attributes. I tried Modernizr but I can't understand on how to integrate it on my website(on how to code it/what is the syntax/includes). Any code snippet there on how to work with date, time attributes to all browsers.
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Modernizr doesn't actually change anything about how the new HTML5 input types are handled. It's a feature detector, not a shim (except for <header>, <article>, etc., which it shims to be handled as block elements similar to <div>).
To use <input type='date'>, you'd need to check Modernizr.inputtypes.date in your own script, and if it's false, turn on another plugin that provides a date selector. You have thousands to choose from; Modernizr maintains a non-exhaustive list of polyfills that might give you somewhere to start. Alternatively, you could just let it go - all browsers fall back to text when presented with an input type they don't recognize, so the worst that can happen is that your user has to type in the date. (You might want to give them a placeholder or use something like jQuery.maskedinput to keep them on track.)
best easy and working solution i have found is, working on following browsers
Safari
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Poly Filler Script for Date/Time</h2>
<form method="post" action="">
<input type="date" />
<br/><br/>
<input type="time" />
</form>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://cdn.jsdelivr.net/webshim/1.12.4/extras/modernizr-custom.js"></script>
<script src="http://cdn.jsdelivr.net/webshim/1.12.4/polyfiller.js"></script>
<script>
webshims.setOptions('waitReady', false);
webshims.setOptions('forms-ext', {type: 'date'});
webshims.setOptions('forms-ext', {type: 'time'});
webshims.polyfill('forms forms-ext');
</script>
</body>
</html>
Just use <script src="modernizr.js"></script> in the <head> section, and the script will add classes which help you to separate the two cases: if it's supported by the current browser, or if it's not.
Plus follow the links posted in this thread. It will help you: HTML5 input type date, color, range support in Firefox and Internet Explorer
I was having problems with this, maintaining the UK dd/mm/yyyy format, I initially used the answer from adeneo https://stackoverflow.com/a/18021130/243905 but that didnt work in safari for me so changed to this, which as far as I can tell works all over - using the jquery-ui datepicker, jquery validation.
if ($('[type="date"]').prop('type') !== 'date') {
//for reloading/displaying the ISO format back into input again
var val = $('[type="date"]').each(function () {
var val = $(this).val();
if (val !== undefined && val.indexOf('-') > 0) {
var arr = val.split('-');
$(this).val(arr[2] + '/' + arr[1] + '/' + arr[0]);
}
});
//add in the datepicker
$('[type="date"]').datepicker(datapickeroptions);
//stops the invalid date when validated in safari
jQuery.validator.methods["date"] = function (value, element) {
var shortDateFormat = "dd/mm/yy";
var res = true;
try {
$.datepicker.parseDate(shortDateFormat, value);
} catch (error) {
res = false;
}
return res;
}
}
You asked for Modernizr example, so here you go. This code uses Modernizr to detect whether the 'date' input type is supported. If it isn't supported, then it fails back to JQueryUI datepicker.
Note: You will need to download JQueryUI and possibly change the paths to the CSS and JS files in your own code.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Modernizer Detect 'date' input type</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="jquery-ui-1.10.3/themes/base/jquery.ui.all.css"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/modernizr/modernizr-1.7-development-only.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-ui-1.10.3/ui/jquery.ui.core.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-ui-1.10.3/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-ui-1.10.3/ui/jquery.ui.datepicker.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
if(!Modernizr.inputtypes.date) {
console.log("The 'date' input type is not supported, so using JQueryUI datepicker instead.");
$("#theDate").datepicker();
}
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input id="theDate" type="date"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
I hope this works for you.
Chrome Version 50.0.2661.87 m does not support the mm-dd-yy format when assigned to a variable. It uses yy-mm-dd. IE and Firefox work as expected.
<html>
<head>
<title>Date picker works for all browsers(IE, Firefox, Chrome)</title>
<script>
var datefield = document.createElement("input")
datefield.setAttribute("type", "date")
if (datefield.type != "date") { // if browser doesn't support input type="date", load files for jQuery UI Date Picker
document.write('<link href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />\n')
document.write('<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js"><\/script>\n')
document.write('<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js"><\/script>\n')
}
</script>
<script>
if (datefield.type != "date") { // if browser doesn't support input type="date", initialize date picker widget:
jQuery(function($) { // on document.ready
$('#start_date').datepicker({
dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd'
});
$('#end_date').datepicker({
dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd'
});
})
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input name="start_date" id="start_date" type="date" required>
<input name="end_date" id="end_date" required>
</body>
</html>
<script>
var datefield = document.createElement("input")
datefield.setAttribute("type", "date")
if (datefield.type != "date") { // if browser doesn't support input type="date", load files for jQuery UI Date Picker
document.write('<link href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />\n')
document.write('<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js"><\/script>\n')
document.write('<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js"><\/script>\n')
}
</script>
<script>
if (datefield.type != "date") { // if browser doesn't support input type="date", initialize date picker widget:
jQuery(function($) { // on document.ready
$('#birthday').datepicker();
}); <- missing semicolon
}
</script>
<body>
<form>
<b>Date of birth:</b>
<input type="date" id="birthday" name="birthday" size="20">
<input type="button" value="Submit" name="B1">
</form>
</body>
Just include Better-Dom and Better-Dateinput-Polyfill in your scripts section.
Here is a Demo:
http://chemerisuk.github.io/better-dateinput-polyfill/
Source: Stackoverflow.com