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When will Firefox support input with type datetime-local or something like that?

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FF is the last which does not support these inputs...

FF is the last which does not support these inputs...

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I assume you to be a web developer. You can follow progress with this meta bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888320

Summary: <input type="time"> seems to be almost ready, <input type="date"> is being implemented. So, perhaps sometime during the next year it will be released but Firefox 52 ESR (next extended support release) will most probably not have it.

It might not be nice to say this, but as far as I understand, currently you can generally achieve better user experience using a JavaScript date picker on desktop even if Firefox supported those elements. And is Firefox really the last browser to support these? Have you considered desktop Safari, IE 11, Opera Mini and all of those old Android phones that only have the integrated Android 4.2 or 4.3 browser (it's not Chrome)? To have your thing not breaking on those you would need a good JavaScript picker anyway.

There are ways to use new input elements so that newer mobile devices will use their nice and touch-friendly native picker and desktop (and other) browsers will use a JavaScript based picker.