<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h3>A demonstration of how to access a Date field</h3>
<input type="date" id="myDate" value="2014-02-09">
<p>Click the button to get the date of the date field.</p>
<button onclick="myFunction()">Try it</button>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> input elements with type="date" do not show as any date field/calendar in Firefox.</p>
<p id="demo"></p>
<script>
function myFunction() {
var x = document.getElementById("myDate").value;
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>