How to extract values from HTML <input type=“date”> using jQuery

Question

Using an HTML input type=\"date\" and a submit button. I would like to populate the variables day, month, and year with t

Answer 1

Date value returned by input type="date" is format yyyy-mm-dd . Could use .split() with argument "-" to retrieve array containing [yyyy, mm, dd]

Note, alert() expects string as parameter ; does not print values same as console.log() with comma , operator

var day, month, year;

$('#submit').on('click', function() {
  var date = $('#date-input').val().split("-");
    console.log(date, $('#date-input').val())
  day = date[2];
  month = date[1];
  year = date[0];
  alert(day + month + year);
});

jsfiddle https://jsfiddle.net/dkxy46ha/2/