Question

I have this field that asks for a date in an iPhone HTML App:

<input type="date" name="DepartureDate" id="DepartureDate" placeholder="Date" value="" class="bookingField" /> 

This script:

var ddate1 = $('#DepartureDate').val();
alert(ddate1);

returns this value: 2012-12-01 (when I select this date of course). Now can I can convert “ddate1” to look like 01/12/2012 ?

Answer 1

This should do the job, demo at jsFiddle.

$('#DepartureDate').change(function()
{
   var ddate1 = this.value.replace(/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)/, '$3/$2/$1');
});