Problems with a date field

[Ned Flanders]

Hi everyone,

I am having issues with a date field which possibly is a bug. The field works in FireFox, Opera, Chrome but not in PaleMoon.

Here is a screenshot.

[vannilla]

Pale Moon currently displays date input fields as textboxes.
You can either work on UXP to align the display with other browsers or see if you can give some CSS to that field on the website to increase its width.

[coffeebreak]

Problems with a date field where ?

Please provide a link.

[Moonchild]

Pale Moon currently displays date input fields as textboxes.

No, it doesn't.

See the live example on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date

[vannilla]

See the live example on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date

Shows like a textbox to me. See attached image.
Unfortunately due to how screenshots are taken on my system the input loses focus temporarily, but even when clicking inside it it behaves like a normal textbox.
Pale Moon 29.4.0.2 on Linux using GTK2.

[Moonchild]

It is an input box but it's not a textbox. if you click it you should get a picker.
Some things might depent on your internationalisation support in the O.S. which complicates matters, but here's what it looks like on Windows 10:

When clicked (popup cut off because of my screenshot process which doesn't like floating layers):

[vannilla]

"Textbox" to mean "not a calendar picker".
And no, if I click on it I get nothing but the ability to insert something using the keyboard, no pickers.
My system is en-US.utf8 with an en-US (i.e. no language packs) browser.
Haven't tried with GTK3 yet, so I can't say if it's a problem with the toolkit.

[Toa-Nuva]

It's the same for me in the GTK3 version. The field behaves like a text input and I do not get a date picker, no matter how I interact with it. I also tested in a new profile to rule out any interfering extensions or settings.

[Kerebron]

No date picker for me either. Just a textbox.
Pale Moon 29.4.0.2 x64 @ Windows 7 HP x64

[FranklinDM]

UXP does support the date/time picker for this type of input field, but the preference that controls this (dom.forms.datetime) is currently disabled by default. See Issue #1210 (UXP).

[Moonchild]

Ah whoops, I didn't remember I had flipped those fields to "on" on my own install. Obviously it's stable enough to enable if you need it but it misses some localization stuff, so it'll expect en-US dates because that is the locale of the core browser. So enable with caveat.