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#6694 closed bug (invalid)

Opened June 20, 2010 06:07PM UTC

Closed November 01, 2010 09:18PM UTC

The selector $('input[type=date]') does not work in ie6

Reported by: tombigel Owned by:
Priority: undecided Milestone: 1.4.3
Component: selector Version: 1.4.2
Keywords: input type date html5 Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

I'm trying to select <input type='date'/> elements, (html5 type attribute), can't make it work on ie6, works on Webkit/Gecko browsers, don't have another ie version to test it on.

I also tried all the [name=value] variants ($,*,~), didn't work.

I made a small test script and getAttribute('type') returns 'date' so I can't think of a reason for this to happen.

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Changed June 20, 2010 07:00PM UTC by dmethvin comment:1

I think the problem is that any non-HTML5 browser uses the dynamic type property of "text" for any input type attribute that it doesn't understand.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.4.1

For both the selector and .attr(), jQuery is looking at the dynamic type property rather than the attribute. For the test below, IE and Firefox alert "text" rather than "date":

<input id="sorry" type="date">
alert($("#sorry").attr("type"))

Changed June 21, 2010 06:49AM UTC by tombigel comment:2

@dmethvin

in your example

document.getElementById('sorry').type returns "text"

but

document.getElementById('sorry').getAttribute('type') returns "date"

so ie6 can "see" type=date, it's just a matter of how the framework tries to access this info

Changed November 01, 2010 09:18PM UTC by rwaldron comment:3

priority: → undecided
resolution: → invalid
status: new → closed

HTML attributes are not the same as JavaScript properties.

document.getElementById('sorry').getAttribute('type') returns "date" - Yes, because that's what the value of the attribute says, however, because IE6 doesn't know what a type="date" input element is, it falls back to "text".