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bcholmes
bcholmes

Reputation: 974

BB10 Date picker title for HTML input type=date tag

I've got an HTML5-based mobile app running on a variety of devices, including the BB10 (and others, but I mostly care about the BB10 for this question).

One of the very specific defects raised by the QA tester team relates to date pickers. We're using simple input fields (type=date), and when the user taps in field, the OS brings up the native date picker. The defect is a complaint about the title on that date picker: currently, it uses a bland title ("Date"), and the QA folk and business unit want a more descriptive title.

My question is: can anything change that title? Here's my current HTML snippet:

<div class="ui-grid-solo">
  <div id="fromDateText">From Date:</div>
  <input type="date" id="fromDate" value="" autocomplete="off" placeholder="From Date" />
</div>

Does the BB10 WebView attempt to use any information in the HTML to determine the picker title? Can I use a title attribute or anything like that to change the title? Or it just always going to say "Date"?

Update: Hm. I've tried using a label around the text (hoping that the widget would pick that up) and I even tried (without much hope) putting a title attribute on the input field. In both cases, the datepicker kept the generic "Date" title.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 652

Answers (1)

Adam Stanley
Adam Stanley

Reputation: 1885

No, this is not possible. The title of the DatePicker dialog cannot be customized from its default value.

I just spoke to Mike and Chris from the BlackBerry browser dev team who confirmed the following:

"We perform localization on behalf of the web developer. So it's "Date" in English but translated to whatever locale the user agent has set."

Upvotes: 1

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