Question

Safari browser gives a syntax error when i try to display the date format in

dd/mm/yyyy

format. Is there any solution how to display them using jquery? Thanks in advance

        function parseDate(input) {
      var d= new Date(input);
      return d.format("dd-mm-yyyy");//"dd/mm/yyyy"
    }//works on chrome not in safari

Answer 1

I’ve created a quick demo of your example code using the date format plugin, fiddle here and it appears to work fine in Safari.

Things to try:

• Check the format of the date you’re passing in to the input is a valid date object
• Make sure that the javascript plugin is included in your page correctly, and that an older version is not being cached by Safari.

Failing that, please provide more information about the error Safari gives you.

UPDATE

As you’ve now said you’re passing a string to the Date() object, I can see the problem. Safari is very strict about what it will accept, so you’ll need to parse the string first, to form a valid Date object. Try the below:

//var d = new Date("2011-11-02"); // This will work for the vast majority of browsers - but not safari

function parseDate(input) {
  var parts = input.match(/(\d+)/g);
  return new Date(parts[0], parts[1]-1, parts[2]);
}

var d = parseDate("2011-11-02");
alert(d.format("dd-mm-yyyy"));

You can test it in this fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Ly4vb/1/