Is there any way to change input type date format

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I m working with HTML5 elements on my webpage  By default input type  date  shows date as YYYY-MM-DD    The question is  is it possible to change its format to something like  DD-MM-YYYY

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It is impossible to change the format  We have to differentiate between the over the wire format and the browser s presentation format   Wire format  The HTML5 date input specification refers to the RFC 3339 specification  which specifies a full-date format equal to  yyyy-mm-dd  See section 5 6 of the RFC 3339 specification for more details   This format is used by the value HTML attribute and DOM property and is the one used when doing an ordinary form submission   Presentation format  Browsers are unrestricted in how they present a date input  At the time of writing Chrome  Edge  Firefox  and Opera have date support  see here   They all display a date picker and format the text in the input field   Desktop devices  For Chrome  Firefox  and Opera  the formatting of the input field s text is based on the browser s language setting  For Edge  it is based on the Windows language setting  Sadly  all web browsers ignore the date formatting configured  in the operating system  To me this is very strange behaviour  and something to consider when using this input type  For example  Dutch users that have their operating system or browser language set to en-us will be shown 01 30 2019 instead of the format they are accustomed to  30-01-2019   Internet Explorer 9  10  and 11 display a text input field with the wire format   Mobile devices  Specifically for Chrome on Android  the formatting is based on the Android display language  I suspect that the same is true for other browsers  though I ve not been able to verify this

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I searched this issue 2 years ago  and my google searches leads me again to this question  Don t waste your time trying to handle this with pure JavaScript  I waste my time trying to make it dd mm yyyy  There s no complete solutions that fits with all browsers  So I recommend to use jQuery datepicker   momentJS or tell your client to work with the default date format instead

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I adjusted the code from Miguel to make it easier to understand and I want to share it with people who have problems like me  Try this for easy and quick way  x000D   x000D      datePicker   on  change   function e       displayDateFormat   this     datePickerLbl     this  val           function displayDateFormat thisElement  datePickerLblId  dateValue         thisElement  css  color    rgba 0 0 0 0         siblings    datePickerLblId         css         position   absolute         left   10px         top   3px         width    this  width               text dateValue length    0            getDateFormat new Date dateValue            function getDateFormat dateValue       let d   new Date dateValue         this pattern dd mm yyyy      you can set pattern you need   let dstring        0    d getDate    slice -2       0     d getMonth     1   slice -2     d getFullYear         return dstring    x000D   date-selector     position  relative      date-selector gt input type date      text-indent  -500px    x000D   lt script src  https   cdnjs cloudflare com ajax libs jquery 3 3 1 jquery min js  gt  lt  script gt   lt div class  date-selector  gt     lt input id  datePicker  class  form-control  type  date  onkeydown  return false    gt     lt span id  datePickerLbl  style  pointer-events  none   gt  lt  span gt   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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It s not possible to change web-kit browsers use user s computer or mobiles default date format  But if you can use jquery and jquery UI there is a date-picker which is designable and can be shown in any format as the developer wants  the link to the jquery UI date-picker is  on this page http   jqueryui com datepicker  you can find demo as well as code and documentation or documentation link  Edit -I find that chrome uses language settings that are by default equal to system settings but the user can change them but developer can t force users to do so so you have to use other js solutions like I tell you can search the web with queries like javascript date-pickers or jquery date-picker

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Since the post is active 2 Months ago  so I thought to give my input as well   In my case i recieve date from a card reader which comes in dd mm yyyy format   what i do   E g     x000D   x000D  var d  16 09 2019     date received from card x000D  function filldate    x000D      document getElementById  cardexpirydate   value d split      reverse   join  -    x000D        x000D   lt input type  date  id  cardexpirydate  gt  x000D   lt br   gt  lt br   gt  x000D   lt input type  button  value  fill the date  onclick  filldate     gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    what the code do    it splits the date which i get as dd mm yyyy  using split     on basis of     and makes an array   it then reverse the array  using reverse    since the date input supports the reverse of what i get  then it joins  using join   the array to a string according the format required by the input field   All this is done in a single line    i thought this will help some one so i wrote this

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Browsers obtain the date-input format from user s system date format   Tested in supported browsers  Chrome  Edge   As there is no standard defined by specs as of now to change the style of date control  its not possible to implement the same in browsers   Users can type a date value into the text field of an input type date  with the date format shown in the box as gray text  This format is obtained from the operating system s setting  Web authors have no way to change the date format because there currently is no standards to specify the format   So no need to change it  if we don t change anything  users will see the date-input s format same as they have configured in the system device settings and which they are comfortable with or matches with their locale  Remember  this is just the UI format on the screen which users see  in your JavaScript backend you can always keep your desired format to work with  Refer google developers page on same

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Google Chrome in its last beta version finally uses the input type date  and the format is DD-MM-YYYY   So there must be a way to force a specific format   I m developing a HTML5 web page and the date searches now fail with different formats

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It s important to distinguish two different formats    The RFC 3339 ISO 8601  wire format   YYYY-MM-DD  According to the HTML5 specification  this is the format that must be used for the input s value upon form submission or when requested via the DOM API  It is locale and region independent  The format displayed by the user interface control and accepted as user input  Browser vendors are encouraged to follow the user s preferences selection  For example  on Mac OS with the region  United States  selected in the Language  amp  Text preferences pane  Chrome 20 uses the format  m d yy     The HTML5 specification does not include any means of overriding or manually specifying either format

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As previously mentioned it is officially not possible to change the format  However it is possible to style the field  so  with a little JS help  it displays the date in a format we desire  Some of the possibilities to manipulate the date input is lost this way  but if the desire to force the format is greater  this solution might be a way  A date fields stays only like that    lt input type  date  data-date    data-date-format  DD MMMM YYYY  value  2015-08-09  gt    The rest is a bit of CSS and JS  http   jsfiddle net g7mvaosL    x000D   x000D     input   on  change   function     x000D      this setAttribute  x000D           data-date   x000D          moment this value   YYYY-MM-DD   x000D           format  this getAttribute  data-date-format     x000D        x000D     trigger  change   x000D  input   x000D      position  relative  x000D      width  150px  height  20px  x000D      color  white  x000D    x000D   x000D  input before   x000D      position  absolute  x000D      top  3px  left  3px  x000D      content  attr data-date   x000D      display  inline-block  x000D      color  black  x000D    x000D   x000D  input  -webkit-datetime-edit  input  -webkit-inner-spin-button  input  -webkit-clear-button   x000D      display  none  x000D    x000D   x000D  input  -webkit-calendar-picker-indicator   x000D      position  absolute  x000D      top  3px  x000D      right  0  x000D      color  black  x000D      opacity  1  x000D    x000D   lt script src  https   cdnjs cloudflare com ajax libs moment js 2 24 0 moment min js  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   lt script src  https   code jquery com jquery-3 4 1 min js  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   lt input type  date  data-date    data-date-format  DD MMMM YYYY  value  2015-08-09  gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    It works nicely on Chrome for desktop  and Safari on iOS  especially desirable  since native date manipulators on touch screens are unbeatable IMHO   Didn t check for others  but don t expect to fail on any Webkit

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As said  the  lt input type date      gt  is not fully implemented in most browsers  so let s talk about webkit like browsers  chrome    Using linux  you can change it by changing the environment variable LANG   LC TIME don t seems to work for me at least    You can type locale in a terminal to see your current values  I think the same concept can be applied to IOS   eg  Using   LANG en US UTF-8  opt google chrome chrome   The date is showed as mm dd yyyy  Using    LANG pt BR  opt google chrome chrome   The date is showed as dd mm yyyy  You can use http   lh 2xlibre net locale pt BR   change pt BR by your locale  to create you own custom locale and format your dates as you want   A nice more advanced reference on how change default system date is  https   ccollins wordpress com 2009 01 06 how-to-change-date-formats-on-ubuntu  and https   askubuntu com questions 21316 how-can-i-customize-a-system-locale  You can see you real current date format using date     date   x 01-06-2015   But as LC TIME and d fmt seems to be rejected by chrome   and I think it s a bug in webkit or chrome    sadly it don t work       So  unfortunately the response  is IF LANG environment variable do not solve your problem  there is no way yet

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I believe the browser will use the local date format  Don t think it s possible to change  You could of course use a custom date picker

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Since this question was asked quite a few things have happened in the web realm  and one of the most exciting is the landing of web components  Now you can solve this issue elegantly with a custom HTML5 element designed to suit your needs  If you wish to override change the workings of any html tag just build yours playing with the shadow dom    The good news is that there   s already a lot of boilerplate available so most likely you won   t need to come up with a solution from scratch  Just check what people are building and get ideas from there   You can start with a simple  and working  solution like datetime-input for polymer that allows you to use a tag like this one     lt date-input date    date    timezone    timezone    gt  lt  date-input gt    or you can get creative and pop-up complete date-pickers styled as you wish  with the formatting and locales you desire  callbacks  and your long list of options  you   ve got a whole custom API at your disposal    Standards-compliant  no hacks    Double-check the available polyfills  what browsers versions they support  and if it covers enough   of your user base    It s 2018  so chances are it ll surely cover most of your users   Hope it helps

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Try this if you need a quick solution To make yyyy-mm-dd go  dd- Sep -2016   1  Create near your input one span class  act as label   2  Update the label everytime your date is changed by user  or when need to load from data   Works for webkit browser mobiles and pointer-events for IE11  requires jQuery and Jquery Date   x000D   x000D      date input   on  change   function      x000D         this  css  color    rgba 0 0 0 0    siblings   datepicker label   css    text-align   center   position   absolute  left   10px   top  14px  width   this  width     text   this  val   length    0           datepicker formatDate   this  attr  dateformat    new Date   this  val        x000D              x000D   date input text-indent  -500px height 25px  width 200px   x000D   lt script src  https   ajax googleapis com ajax libs jquery 2 0 2 jquery min js  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   lt script src  http   code jquery com ui 1 9 2 jquery-ui min js  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   lt input id   date input  dateformat  d M y  type  date   gt  x000D   lt span class  datepicker label  style  pointer-events  none   gt  lt  span gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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After having read lots of discussions  I have prepared a simple solution but I don t want to use lots of Jquery and CSS  just some javascript   HTML Code    lt input type  date  id  dt  onchange  mydate1     hidden  gt   lt input type  text  id  ndt   onclick  mydate     hidden   gt   lt input type  button  Value  Date  onclick  mydate       gt    CSS Code    dt     text-indent  -500px    height  25px    width  200px      Javascript Code    function mydate         alert        document getElementById  dt   hidden   false    document getElementById  ndt   hidden   true     function mydate1       d   new Date document getElementById  dt   value     dt   d getDate      mn   d getMonth      mn      yy   d getFullYear      document getElementById  ndt   value   dt         mn         yy   document getElementById  ndt   hidden   false    document getElementById  dt   hidden   true      Output

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I know it s an old post but it come as first suggestion in google search  short answer no  recommended answer user a custom date piker   the correct answer that i use is using a text box to simulate the date input and do any format you want  here is the code    lt html gt   lt body gt  date     lt span style  position  relative display  inline-block border  1px solid  a9a9a9 height  24px width  500px  gt       lt input type  date  class  xDateContainer  onchange  setCorrect this  xTime     style  position  absolute  opacity  0 0 height  100  width  100    gt  lt input type  text  id  xTime  name  xTime  value  dd   mm   yyyy  style  border  none height  90    tabindex  -1  gt  lt span style  display  inline-block width  20px z-index  2 float  right padding-top  3px   tabindex  -1  gt  amp  9660  lt  span gt   lt  span gt   lt script language  javascript  gt  var matchEnterdDate 0    function to set back date opacity for non supported browsers     window onload  function            var input   document createElement  input            input setAttribute  type   date            input setAttribute  value    some text             if input value      some text                allDates   document getElementsByClassName  xDateContainer                matchEnterdDate 1              for  var i   0  i  lt  allDates length  i                      allDates i  style opacity    1                                    function to convert enterd date to any format function setCorrect xObj xTraget       var date   new Date xObj value       var month   date getMonth        var day   date getDate        var year   date getFullYear        if month   NaN            document getElementById xTraget  value day       month       year       else          if matchEnterdDate  1  document getElementById xTraget  value xObj value               lt  script gt     lt  body gt   lt  html gt    1- please note that this method only work for browser that support date type   2- the first function in JS code is for browser that don t support date type and set the look to a normal text input   3- if you will use this code for multiple date inputs in your page please change the ID  xTime  of the text input in both function call and the input itself to something else and of course use the name of the input you want for the form submit   4-on the second function you can use any format you want instead of day       month       year for example year       month       day and in the text input use a placeholder or value as yyyy   mm   dd for the user when the page load

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i found a way to change format  its a tricky way  i just changed the appearance of the date input fields using just a CSS code    x000D   x000D  input type  date    -webkit-datetime-edit  input type  date    -webkit-inner-spin-button  input type  date    -webkit-clear-button   x000D    color   fff  x000D    position  relative  x000D    x000D   x000D  input type  date    -webkit-datetime-edit-year-field  x000D    position  absolute  important  x000D    border-left 1px solid  8c8c8c  x000D    padding  2px  x000D    color  000  x000D    left  56px  x000D    x000D   x000D  input type  date    -webkit-datetime-edit-month-field  x000D    position  absolute  important  x000D    border-left 1px solid  8c8c8c  x000D    padding  2px  x000D    color  000  x000D    left  26px  x000D    x000D   x000D   x000D  input type  date    -webkit-datetime-edit-day-field  x000D    position  absolute  important  x000D    color  000  x000D    padding  2px  x000D    left  4px  x000D     x000D    x000D   lt input type  date  value  2019-12-07  gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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