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Based on which event you want to perform the check, after some specific action or on DOM load...
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Based on which event you want to perform the check, after some specific action or on DOM load...

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I plan to complete after the submit button is pushed. If the value is empty, add the default.
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I plan to complete after the submit button is pushed. If the value is empty, add the default.

Stacey Fontenot

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I have a web application that is using html 5. I need to check a date input field to see if it has a value, if not, then add then add the date: (1901-01-01) yyyy-MM-dd. I would like to use javascript. The input date field is below.<br />
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<pre><code id="code-10-29131091-1">&lt;input type=&quot;date&quot; name=&quot;Date_First_Use&quot; id=&quot;add_Date_First_Use&quot; class=&quot;form-control&quot; disabled /&gt;</code></pre>
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I have a web application that is using html 5. I need to check a date input field to see if it has a value, if not, then add then add the date: (1901-01-01) yyyy-MM-dd. I would like to use javascript. The input date field is below.

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Check if Date Input Field has value, if not add a default

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information to be displayed in a web browser, providing both the structure and content for what is sent from a web server through the use of tags. The current implementation of the HTML specification is HTML5.

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JavaScript is a dynamic, object-based language commonly used for client-side scripting in web browsers. Recently, server side JavaScript frameworks have also emerged. JavaScript runs on nearly every operating system and  in almost every mainstream web browser.