How do you programmatically clear HTML5 date fields?

Question

I\'m looking for a way to programmatically clear HTML5 date fields with Javascript (specifically jQuery). So far I have tried two methods which I thought obvious:

Answer 1

If you can't clear a date field, this could also depend on a browser bug. I spend some time until I found out that you cannot reset the date in Firefox if the date control is disabled. See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1465979

Without the bug, I am able to clear the date like that:

document.getElementById("myDate").value = "";