Html 5 datepicker in firefox

Question

Is there any way that I can set enable a datepicker in firefox(version 21) with HTML 5. I dont want to use a jQuery based datepicker because javascript will be disabled in the b

Answer 1

jQuery UI has a datepicker widget that you can conditionally load if the browser doesn't have one built in. The catch is that even if you only select the datepicker widget in a custom jQuery UI build, it's still a significant download.

My favorite solution is to use yepnope, which comes with Modernizr, to conditionally load the jQuery UI CSS and JS files only if needed for the datepicker. By combining this with an optimized build of Modernizr and a datepicker-only jQuery UI build, it gives you the smallest download for all possible browsers.

yepnope({ /* included with Modernizr */
  test : Modernizr.inputtypes.date,
  nope : {
    'css': '/path-to-your-css/jquery-ui-1.10.3.custom.min.css',
    'js': '/path-to-your-js/jquery-ui-1.10.3.datepicker.min.js'
  },
  callback: { // executed once files are loaded
    'js': function() { $('input[type=date]').datepicker({dateFormat: "yy-mm-dd"}); } // default HTML5 format
  }
});

Answer 2

Firefox 57 finally has a datepicker with a clickable calender (<input type="date">).

The timepicker is just a text field that limits input to valid times. Sadly, it only supports 12 hour time format (<input type="time">).

datetime-local still isn't supported (<input type="datetime-local">).

Answer 3

Old question, but I found this here (firefox 54), at least, which gives hope:

Go to about:config and search for dom.forms.datetime

Set both entries found to true, et voilà! Now all they need to do is enable them by default!

Answer 4

Firefox (version 21) doesn't support input type=date.

Here you have a site that tells you what it supports and what it doesn't Firefox21

Answer 5

Firefox 57 (Nov 14, 2017) supports it:

http://caniuse.com/#feat=input-datetime