Name

month

Type

input

Synopsis

How to render a month/year input field

Description

input elements of type month create input fields that let the user enter a month and year allowing a month and year to be easily entered. The value is a string whose value is in the format "YYYY-MM", where YYYY is the four-digit year and MM is the month number.

Parameters

type="month"

All other valid parameters for an input field are valid. Additionally you can use min, max, step and list.

Example

<label for="bday-month">What month were you born in?</label>
  <input id="bday-month" type="month" name="bday-month" />

Note

When not a correct month is entered, the browser will fallback to a text-input field. Read the link below how to handle these situations.

Also note that not all browsers support the month attribute.

Links

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/month