CFINPUT DateField

I have 2 CFINPUT DateField on the form, one is Start ate and one is End Dated. Start Date is on top of End Date.
The Start Date Calendar goes behind End Date when users enter start date using Start Date control that users is unable to use calendar to enter date.
I would like to know how I can control that make Start Date Calendar in front of End Date Control while user enter information.
Your help and information is great appreciated,
regards,
Iccsi

Hi. I was able to reproduce the same behavior you described in Internet Explorer 8, but only if I triggered compatibility mode in IE.
If it is possible for the page/site you are working on, I would recommend using a Document Type Definition (DTD) that triggers standards mode. For example, if I include the HTML5 doctype as the first line in the CFM file:
<!DOCTYPE html>
Then the page is rendered in standards mode and the datepicker overlays are rendered properly.
The HTML 4.01 strict doctype should also trigger standards mode:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
If you want to make the compatibility mode button disappear, so that users can't trigger it manually, you can include Microsoft's X-UA-Compatible header:
<cfheader name="X-UA-Compatible" value="IE=edge">
Normally you might see this ehader added via a meta tag, e.g.:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
However, if it is not part of the response header, it should be one of the first (if not the first) item after the opening head tag. Since cfform injects Javascript above any code you add to the head, the typical method won't work.
I hope that helps!

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[email protected]
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CFINPUT with datefield type issue

I have a personal information form that has a hire date entry
field. I would like to make the field optional, yet I have to enter
a hire date as I get an error if I dont. The database autofills the
hire date field with the word "null" so if I submit the form
without entering a date, I get an error message saying: "Error
"null" is an invalud date or time string."
Also, in my database, I have Hire Date as a type DATE, null
is selected, and default is 0000-00-00. On a side note, even though
I have 0000-00-00 entered as the default, the word "null" still
populates the hire date field on the page.
Here is my code:
<cfformgroup type="horizontal" visible="yes" enabled="yes"
style="marginLeft:-74;" >
<cfinput type="Datefield" name="HireDate" label="Hire
Date:" width="80" bind="{contactList.selectedItem.HireDate}"
onchange="UpdateSelect(HireDate, selectYear1);"/>
<cfselect name="selectYear1" width="80" label=""
onchange="setStartYear(HireDate, selectYear1);">
<cfoutput>
<option value="">Pick Year</option>
<cfloop index="i" from="1935" to="#thisyear#">
<option value="#i#">#i#</option>
</cfloop>
</cfoutput>
</cfselect>
</cfformgroup>
Any help with this problem would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick Butler

Hi Nick,
I am not sure which insert method you are using for inserting
your form information into the database. I prefer to insert
my
form information via a <cfquery>.
Below is the code I use in my forms and have not encountered
any issues with blank date fields being inserted into a DB.
<cfquery name="qry_name" datasource="yourdatasource">
Insert Into tbl_name (
db_field,
hiredate,
db_field)
Values(
nullif(<cfqueryparam cfsqltype="CF_SQL_VARCHAR"
value="#form.form_field#">,''),
nullif(<cfqueryparam cfsqltype="CF_SQL_DATE"
value="#form.hiredate#">,''),
nullif(<cfqueryparam cfsqltype="CF_SQL_VARCHAR"
value="#form.form_field#">,'')
</cfquery>
With the above code, should the person leave the hire date
field blank, it will
insert a null value into the db field. If the person enters a
date, it will insert the
date into the db field formatted as yyyy-mm-dd.
Leonard B

CFINPUT Type=DateField... support international dates?

I can't seem to find it in the docs but does the HTML
Datefield support international date names (e.g. French). I can set
the Local and display it properly for the LSDateFormat but don't
know if it is supported with the CFINPUT Type=DateField.

for instance:
<cfscript>
// thai locale
thai=createObject("java","java.util.Locale").init("th","TH");
// get date format symbols for this locale
dfs=createObject("java","java.text.DateFormatSymbols").init(thai);
// localized month names
months=dfs.getMonths();
// localized short month names
shortMonths=dfs.getShortMonths();
// localized days of week
dow=dfs.getWeekdays();
// localized short days of week
shortDOW=dfs.getShortWeekdays();
</cfscript>
<cfdump var="#months#" label="months">
<br/>
<cfdump var="#shortMonths#" label="short months">
<br/>
<cfdump var="#dow#" label="days of week">
<br/>
<cfdump var="#shortDOW#" label="short days of week">

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