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I would like to trigger the display of a date input's date-picker from an external button.

<input id="date" type="date" />
<button>display date</button>

For instance if I had the above code, how would I show the date-picker (the box which appears and allows you to pick a date) by clicking the button? I do not want to use jQuery or other libraries. Is there a way to show the native date-picker from an external trigger with vanilla JavaScript?

I'm looking for something like this:

var button = document.querySelector("button");
button.onclick = () => {
    var input = document.querySelector("#date");
    input.showDatePicker();
}
niiyeboah
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  • Possible duplicate of [HTML Input Type Date, Open Calendar by default](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24975667/html-input-type-date-open-calendar-by-default) – Heretic Monkey Mar 03 '18 at 22:02

2 Answers2

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You can with

let x = document.getElementById('myDate'),
  d = new Date(),
  m = d.getMonth() < 10 ? `0${d.getMonth()}` : `${d.getMonth()}`,
  day = d.getDay() < 10 ? `0${d.getDay()}` : `${d.getDay()}`;

x.value = d.getFullYear() + "-" + m + "-" + day;

Demo

bru02
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  • Hi so I didn't want a way to get the date but a way to make the **date-picker** show. The thing that appears when you click the arrow on pc, or on mobile just touch the input. I want to make that appear from a separate button – niiyeboah Mar 03 '18 at 21:55
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This works well on firefox and edge : 

<input id="date" type="date" />
<button>display date</button>
<script type="text/javascript">
 var button = document.querySelector("button");
button.onclick = () => {
    var input = document.querySelector("#date");
    input.focus()
    input.click()
}
</script>
Simon Loir
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