How to make <input type=“date”> supported on all browsers? Any alternatives?

Question

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

Answer 1

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;
    }
}