Custom Input Date | CSS Tutorial

6th July 2021

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Hey everyone. Welcome to today’s tutorial. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a custom input date field. To build this custom date input, we need HTML and CSS. We do not make use of any external libraries, images or javascript.

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Project Folder Structure:

Before we start coding let us take a look at the project folder structure. We create a project folder called – ‘Styling Input Date’. Inside this folder, we have two files. The first file is index.html which is the HTML document. And the second file is style.css which is the stylesheet.

HTML:

We begin with the HTML code. First, copy the code below and paste it into your HTML document. Our HTML document consists of just the input tag of type ‘date’.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>Styling Input Date</title>
    <!--Google Font-->
    <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com">
    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto+Mono:wght@500&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
    <!--Stylesheet-->
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
</head>
<body>
   <input type="date">
</body>
</html>

CSS:

We style this date input with CSS. For this copy, the code provided to you below and paste it into your stylesheet. We make use of the ‘::-webkit-calendar-picker-indicator
‘ pseudo-element to style the input field.

*,
*:before,
*:after{
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    box-sizing: border-box;
}
input[type="date"]{
    background-color: #0080ff;
    padding: 15px;
    position: absolute;
    transform: translate(-50%,-50%);
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    font-family: "Roboto Mono",monospace;
    color: #ffffff;
    font-size: 18px;
    border: none;
    outline: none;
    border-radius: 5px;
}
::-webkit-calendar-picker-indicator{
    background-color: #ffffff;
    padding: 5px;
    cursor: pointer;
    border-radius: 3px;
}

That’s it for this tutorial. Our input field styling is now ready. You can now go ahead and customize it the way you want by changing font size, font family, colours, border radius and much more.

If you face any issues while creating this project you can download the source code by clicking on the ‘Download Code’ button below. A zip file will download automatically. All you have to do is extract the files inside and you are good to go.

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