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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
    try67
    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
      try67
      Community Expert
      October 3, 2023

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

        try67
        try67
        Community Expert
        October 4, 2023

        Yes, which is was I was wondering if someone knew of a script or something that would change the input type to date when it is opened in a browser. If that is even possible, I'm not sure.


        Try a forum about HTML pages.

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