cognito-forms
I have a field for Student Birth Date – defined as date, nothing else. When the form is in production whatever date you type in it the error says it's not formatted correctly.
I deleted it and re-added it, same error. I've typed the date in, chosen it from the date picker. Really if I choose today's date in another year the error goes away (e.g. today is 8/4/16, choosing 8/4/06 no error, 8/5/06 = error).
What's wrong with this?
One option would be to add an additional calculation field to represent the numeric value that is set to Show This Field - Never. This field will only be available in calculations, so will not affect the layout of your form.
The minimum and maximum range values in Cognito Forms can either be constant values, like 8/1/2015 or calculations, like =DateTime.Today. Use this calculation as the minimum to prevent users from entering dates in the past. The date picker will visually show these dates cannot be selected and an error will be shown if they try to type in a date in the past.
Range Settings
Date Validation
Best Answer
Some JavaScript libraries manipulate the default behavior of intrinsic types, such as Date, in ways that are not predictable or expected by Cognito Forms. If you are seeing unexpected behavior for a form embedded in your website, try using the IFrame embed option, which eliminates JavaScript incompatibilities like this.