How to Customize HTML5 Date Field Date Format
When date input was added by HTML5, many believed that it would offer the users a friendly, interactive and known method of entering a date on a website. However; this new addition has failed to live up to the expectations and the major reason behind it remains the fickle nature of the format of the input given by the user. Originally, the date input attribute was designed as a form element to pick values through a datepicker.