On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Schalk Neethling <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to rectify any misunderstanding, I love the date picker that Opera > provides and others will hopefully do in turn but, my question is that > currently using type=date only provides the option of selecting a date using > the date picker. In a recent talk I gave on HTML 5 the question arose that > well, what if the user wants to have both options on the same field? > > My suggestion was to fall back to using a standard text input field and use > JavaScript to add the date picker which will allow the user to enter the date > manually if so desired. Are there any current plans to add this ability to > type=date or is the fallback the best option?
That's a browser UI issue, then. File a bug on Opera suggesting that. ~TJ
