I have a input tag like this:
<input class="span2" type="date" name="date" value="01/12/2012">
The input form in template is displayed like mm/dd/yyyy. The static value that I provided is not working. However when I change the type to date it works. Does html not allow this?
The input tag with type="date" is supposed to accept dates in the format of YYYY-MM-DD and not mm/dd/yyyy as you are trying to pass.
Read more about it on w3.org and validity is defined as per RFC 3339.
Therefore, the value should be passed as
value="2012-01-12"
You're not conforming the HTML5 specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#input-author-notes
The specification requires that all literal date values be written in ISO 8601 format: yyyy-MM-dd:
The format used "on the wire", i.e. in HTML markup and in form submissions, is intended to be computer-readable and consistent irrespective of the user's locale. Dates, for instance, are always written in the format "YYYY-MM-DD", as in "2003-02-01". Users are not expected to ever see this format.
