Date field type format option changes input type to 'text'

[tiriana]

When i do:

    $builder->add('submittedAt_min',
                    'date',
                    array('widget' => 'single_text', 'label' => 'my label', 'attr' => array('placeholder' => 'my placeholder')));

i get:

    <input type="date" placeholder="my placeholder" required="required" name="es_app_filter[submittedAt_min]" id="es_app_filter_submittedAt_min" class="hasDatepicker">

The type is "date"

But when I add format option to field:

    $builder->add('submittedAt_min',
                    'date',
                    array('format' => 'dd-MM-yyyy', 'widget' => 'single_text', 'label' => 'my label', 'attr' => array('placeholder' => 'my placeholder')));

I get:

      <input type="text" placeholder="my placeholder" required="required" name="es_app_filter[submittedAt_min]" id="es_app_filter_submittedAt_min">

the input type is now 'text'.

[hpatoio]

See comment here https://github.com/symfony/Form/blob/master/Extension/Core/Type/DateType.php#L130

The field type is set to "date" only if the format matches the one expected by HTML5 ( yyyy-MM-dd ) https://github.com/symfony/Form/blob/master/Extension/Core/Type/DateType.php#L31

[tiriana]

I see. Thanks for your answer.

There definitely should be an info at http://symfony.com/doc/2.2/reference/forms/types/date.html#format that when one uses diferent format, the input type will change. And an option that would force date widget to render input with type='date' anyway.

Can I here request such features here or sould I do it in another ticket?

[hpatoio]

Here the commit that introduced this behavior symfony/form@6f83f0d

As you can read on W3C website http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/input.date.html the date input type send a date in RFC 3339 format. So, if you specify a different format in the script the parsing would fail. Am I right @bschussek ?

I do agree about adding a warning message in the documentation

[stof]

I opened an issue in the documentation issue tracker instead