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October 3, 2023
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Adobe Date picker field does not work on browsers

  • October 3, 2023
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I am trying to add the date picker field. When the PDF is opened in anything other than Acrobat, such as a browser, the date field becomes a regular text field. When I inspect the PDF in my browsers, the html has an input tag with type="text" instead of date. Is there any way in Acrobat that I can force type="date" so the date picker on the form I created will function in browsers?

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try67
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Community Expert
October 3, 2023

No. The date picker is an Adobe invention. It's not a part of the PDF specifications, so browsers are not obliged to implement it. They don't even bother implementing the stuff they do have to, anyway...

If you want the file to be displayed properly, including the date picker, open it in Adobe Reader.

try67
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Community Expert
October 3, 2023

PS. PDFs do not contain HTML tags, so I'm not sure what you're looking at there...

Participant
October 4, 2023

If you open it in a browser and inspect(right click, choose inspect), there absolutely HTML tags used to render the PDF.