Title: Input Date
Last modified: November 22, 2019

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# Input Date

 *  Resolved [inezsegers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inezsegers/)
 * (@inezsegers)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/input-date/)
 * The date inputfield in IE doesn’t work, (in other browsers it does)
    it gives
   an error message that the date notation is incorrect.
 * In IE I can see the HTML of the intputfield there’s a pattern attribute while
   in other browsers there’s isn’t.
    The pattern in IE needs to be YYYY-MM-DD but
   in other browsers it allows you to input a DD-MM-YYYY pattern. I like the pattern
   to be DD-MM-YYYY.
 * Can someone help me with this?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Finput-date%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Lap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lapzor/)
 * (@lapzor)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/input-date/#post-12166358)
 * Hi,
 * Our plugin doesn’t do anything special to those fields and by default depends
   on HTML5 input fields and however the browser handles that.
 * If you really meant Internet Explorer, note that the last release of that browser
   was on January 12, 2016… Not something we still want to support from our plugin.
   Or did you mean Edge browser?
 * Anyway, a sort of easy work around would be to change the field type to “text”
   instead of “date”, or slightly more advanced but better solution would be to 
   add a data picker to the field via Javascript. There are many good Javascript
   Date Pickers out there.
 * It’s actually on our “to do some day maybe list” to provide a build in date picker
   for date fields as the HTML5 implementation for date fields is still a bit wonky
   in some less populair browsers.
 * Hope that helps. If you have any questions, please let me know!
 *  Plugin Contributor [Lap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lapzor/)
 * (@lapzor)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/input-date/#post-12193041)
 * Since there have been no replies for awhile I will now mark this topic as “resolved”.
   If you are still experiencing this issue or you have a similar problem, please
   create a NEW topic. Thank you!

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## Tags

 * [date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/date/)
 * [ie](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/ie/)

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 * Last reply from: [Lap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lapzor/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/input-date/#post-12193041)
 * Status: resolved