Creating a Date Picker Input Using HTML5

Creating a Date Picker Input Using HTML5


Welcome back to Kuasai Teknologi! This tutorial will focus on Date Pickers, which are used to easily capture date and time information from users.

Date Input Types

HTML5 offers several specific input types for date and time:

  • Date: Select day, month, and year.
  • Month: Select month and year.
  • Week: Select week and year.
  • Time: Select hours and minutes.
  • Datetime-local: Select date, month, year, and local time.

Example Code

The basic syntax for a date input is:

date: <input type="date" name="tanggal" />

Here is a more comprehensive example showing various HTML5 input types:

<html>
<head>
  <title>Using Date Picker Inputs</title>
</head>
<body>
  <form>
    Please enter your details: <br/>
    Email: <input type="email" name="email_pengunjung" /><br/>
    Website: <input type="url" name="url_pengunjung" /><br/>
    Number: <input type="number" name="angka" min="1" max="10" /><br/>
    Range: <input type="range" name="jangkauan" min="1" max="10" /><br/>
    Date: <input type="date" name="tanggal" />
  </form>
</body>
</html>

Browser Appearance

When viewed in a modern browser (like Opera), each field will display specialized controls based on its type.

Date Picker Result Result of the script above

For a more detailed explanation, you can watch the video tutorial below:

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