placeholder for input type date html5

Question

placeholder does not work for input type date directly.

<input required="" type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Date"/>

instead, it shows mm/dd/yyy

how to show Date?

Answer 1

use onfocus="(this.type='date')", example:

<input required="" type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Date" onfocus="(this.type='date')"/>

Answer 2

use onfocus and onblur... Here it's an example:

<input type="text" placeholder="Birth Date" onfocus="(this.type='date')" onblur="if(this.value==''){this.type='text'}">

Answer 3

Here, I have tried data attribute in input element. and applied required placeholder using CSS

<input type="date" name="dob" data-placeholder="Date of birth" required aria-required="true" />

    input[type="date"]::before { 
    	content: attr(data-placeholder);
    	width: 100%;
    }
    
    /* hide our custom/fake placeholder text when in focus to show the default
     * 'mm/dd/yyyy' value and when valid to show the users' date of birth value.
     */
    input[type="date"]:focus::before,
    input[type="date"]:valid::before { display: none }

<input type="date" name="dob" data-placeholder="Date of birth" required aria-required="true" />

Hope this helps

Answer 4

For angular 2,You can use this directive

import {Directive, ElementRef, HostListener} from '@angular/core';

@Directive({
  selector: '[appDateClick]'
})
export class DateClickDirective {
  @HostListener('focus') onMouseFocus() {
    this.el.nativeElement.type = 'date';
    setTimeout(()=>{this.el.nativeElement.click()},2);
  }

  @HostListener('blur') onMouseBlur() {
    if(this.el.nativeElement.value == ""){
      this.el.nativeElement.type = 'text';
    }
  }


  constructor(private el:ElementRef) { }

}

and use it like below.

 <input appDateClick name="targetDate" placeholder="buton name" type="text">

Answer 5

<input type="text" placeholder="*To Date" onfocus="(this.type='date')" onblur="(this.type='text')" >

This code works for me. Simply you can use this