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

[tombigel]

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.

[dmethvin]

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"))

[tombigel]

@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

[Rick Waldron]

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".