Datetime Picker in HTML – How to add datetime picker in HTML Input

The HTML <input> element is used to create interactive controls for web-based forms in order to accept data from the user; a wide variety of types of input data and control widgets are available, depending on the device and user agent.

one of them is <input type=”date”>

We don’t need any javascript plugin to show date time picker in forms. It now different types of date formats.

Above input, the type will only show the date with the yyyy-mm-dd format but if you want to show time also then you have to use

when we use the above method, input will show you date only on a small window, select any date, then the input will show value like

The — are a placeholder for time, select first — then use Up & Down arrows of input to change the hour and minutes.

The format shown on input is mm/dd/yyyy but when posting to the server it will always format the value like

yyyy-mm-dd

That’s it.

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