I have a field that is required to collect a year from the user (i.e. a date with a year resolution - for ease of storage I'd prefer to store an actual date value and not a number).
I would like to use the date input UI supported by modern browsers or webshims because its nice and plays well with modern platforms. I couldn't figure out how to get the UI to display only the year. Any ideas?
If there is no platform support, ideally I would like to have a UI something like you can see here if you click "Preview" and then click the top of the widget a couple of times, except in reverse: when you first click the input you get a widget with a list of decades, then you drill down to choose the year, then the UI closes.
I try with this, no modifications on the css.
Example code jsfiddle
No you can not but you may want to use input type number as a workaround. Look at the following example:
You can do the following:
Example using PHP (you can do this in any language of your choice):
Server:
HTML
As an added benefit, this works has a browser compatibility of a 100% ;-)
No, you can't, it doesn't support only year, so to do that you need a script, like jQuery or the webshim link you have, which shows year only.
If jQuery would be an option, here is one, borrowed from Sibu:
Src: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13528855/2827823
Src fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/vW8zc/
Here is an updated fiddle, without the month and prev/next buttons
If bootstrap is an option, check this link, they have a layout how you want.
Add this code structure to your page code
It works perfectly and can be reverse engineered
With this you are good to go.
There is input type month in HTML5 which allows to select month and year. Month selector works with autocomplete.
Check the example in JSFiddle.