Jquery place holder text not working in firefox and IE browser

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Below is my code for placing the place holder text in textbox as mm/dd/yyyy it is working in chrome browser but the place holder text and the date picker which is working in chrome is not supporting in firefox and Internet Explorer


<script>
        $('input[type="date"], input[type="datetime"], input[type="datetime-local"], input[type="month"], input[type="time"], input[type="week"]').each(function () {
            var el = this, type = $(el).attr('type');
            if ($(el).val() == '') $(el).attr('type', 'text');
            $(el).focus(function () {
                $(el).attr('type', type);
                el.click();
            });
            $(el).blur(function () {
                if ($(el).val() == '') $(el).attr('type', 'text');
            });
        });

    </script>

<asp:TextBox ID="txtFromDate" Width="113px" runat="server" type="date" placeholder="Date">

What I have tried:

My requirement is to have a place holder text as mm/dd/yyyy in textbox and while typing month mm should disapper and while typing date dd should disappear similarly for yyyy how can i do this

Posted 2-May-17 19:00pm

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Updated 2-May-17 21:56pm

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Wessel Beulink · Answer 1 · 2017-05-02T21:56:00

Correct The types:

type="date",
type="datetime-local",
type="month", type="time",
type="week'

Are not supported in FireFox, IE and Chrome below version 20.
To be able to use date type in all browser you can check using modernizer and if not supported you can fall back to use javascript to show the datepickerr.

<script>
    $(function(){           
        if (!Modernizr.inputtypes.date) {
            $('input[type=date]').datepicker({
                  dateFormat : 'yy-mm-dd'
                }
             );
        }
    });
</script>

Other solution will be to use bootstrap datetime picker, but unfortunately you have to change this date/datetime box manually. p.s. bootstrap datetime picker works for FireFox but IE is still a problem.