1386792 - datepicker for input type=date does not initialize with the current date if min date is set

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Ronny Perinke]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20170726200247

Steps to reproduce:

have an input[type=date] with a min value and an empty input-value
<input type="date" min="1940-01-01">


Actual results:

datepicker initializes with min date


Expected results:

datepicker should open with current date


Is suggest the following logic

1) if value is set, initialize with value
2) if value is not set
2.1) if a min date is set and the current date is before the min date, initialize with the min date
2.2) if a max date is set and the current date is after the max date, initialize with the max date
2.3) else use the current date

p.s.
This should be implemented for Desktop as well.

Comment 1

[Ronny Perinke]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date#Setting_maximum_and_minimum_dates

Comment 2

[Bogdan Surd, QA [:bsurd, NI]]

Changing the product to core. @Scott could you have a look over this. Thanks!

Comment 3

[Scott Wu [:scottwu]]

Attachment: <input type="date" min="1940-01-01">

I couldn't reproduce the issue where it would initialize to the min value instead of today's date. Does it affect desktop or only fennec?

However I agree it'd be a better UX to initialize to the max date if today is later than that date, and to the min date if today is earlier.

Comment 4

[Ronny Perinke]

(In reply to Scott Wu [:scottwu] from comment #3)
> Created attachment 8893481 [details]
> <input type="date" min="1940-01-01">
> 
> I couldn't reproduce the issue where it would initialize to the min value
> instead of today's date. Does it affect desktop or only fennec?
> 
> However I agree it'd be a better UX to initialize to the max date if today
> is later than that date, and to the min date if today is earlier.

It does affect only fennec but my suggestion is for both because desktop initializes always with the current date when the input's value is empty.

Comment 5

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

[triage] I suspect if min date is early enough, date picker is useless (e.g. year is 1940): marking critical.

Comment 6

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Downgrading priority from P1 to P2

Comment 7

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