https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/date-format-request-for-inputting-dates Gravity Support Forums Topic: Date format request for inputting dates en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:04:48 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/date-format-request-for-inputting-dates#post-336461 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 08:51:29 +0000 David Peralty 336461@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Add two text fields to your form. Give them CSS Classes so you can hook into the fields. Then in the JavaScript in your header.php file use the classes of those two fields to hook it in:</p> <pre><code>&lt;script&gt; $(function() { $( &quot;.datepicker&quot; ).datepicker({ altField: &quot;.alternate&quot;, altFormat: &quot;DD, d MM, yy&quot; }); }); &lt;/script&gt;</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/date-format-request-for-inputting-dates#post-335748 Fri, 21 Jun 2013 02:16:56 +0000 greenfrog 335748@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I took a look at the documentation you suggested David.</p> <p>This presentation would satisfy my client's basic requirements:</p> <p><a href="http://jqueryui.com/datepicker/#alt-field" rel="nofollow">http://jqueryui.com/datepicker/#alt-field</a></p> <p>Is there any way to display that style of output easily? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/date-format-request-for-inputting-dates#post-308975 Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:32:07 +0000 greenfrog 308975@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>David - thanks for the reply.</p> <p>I'd be interested in having a go at what you suggest.. but don't know how to set about it. Is there any suggested reading that might give me a start? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/date-format-request-for-inputting-dates#post-303850 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:07:16 +0000 David Peralty 303850@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We don't have a way of doing this by default in Gravity Forms. It would require custom coding. We use the JQuery date picker - <a href="http://jqueryui.com/datepicker/#date-formats" rel="nofollow">http://jqueryui.com/datepicker/#date-formats</a> You could attach the datepicker to an input field and use the Date Formats to change how it works. It wouldn't be exactly the same, but they do include a format DD, d MM yy that would include the day of the week. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/date-format-request-for-inputting-dates#post-303481 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 07:17:10 +0000 greenfrog 303481@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I have a client in the tourist industry who'd like a pull-down date selector that gives day of week as well as date.</p> <p>The drop-down day/date selection currently on the Qantas airlines website is an example of what he wants: <a href="http://www.qantas.com.au" rel="nofollow">http://www.qantas.com.au</a></p> <p>It has one drop down for year-month, another for date-day</p> <p>The reason this matters in this industry is because apparently a percentage of guests manage to select the wrong date, even though they know the correct day of their travel, (presumably they misread a calendar - or don't bother to use one).</p> <p>Is there any way Gravity Forms can be set up to run a date selector like this? </p>