HTML5 date picker doesn't show on Safari

Question

Having previously used jQuery date picker, I have now converted some of the date fields in forms on my website to the HTML5 date picker.

On the documentation, it says Sa

Answer 1

Although there is no native datepicker for Safari (or IE) a pretty good workaround is to add a placeholder attribute to the date input. This informs Safari and IE users which format the fallback text input should be (which is yyyy-mm-dd).

The placeholder doesn't display on browsers that support type="date" so this workaround won't affect other browsers.

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