Date masking in EJ2 JavaScript Datepicker control

26 Jul 20239 minutes to read

DatePicker has enableMask property that provides the option to enable the built-in date masking support. Also, you must inject the MaskedDateTime module to enable the masking support.

index.js
index.html
var datepickerObject = new ej.calendars.DatePicker({
    enableMask: true
});
datepickerObject.appendTo('#mask');
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 DatePicker control</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-calendars/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <input id="mask">
    </div>


<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
  ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}   
      </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

The mask pattern is defined based on the provided date format to the component. If the format is not specified, the mask pattern is formed based on the default format of the current culture.

Keys	Actions
`Up / Down arrows`	To increment and decrement the selected portion of the date.
`Left / Right arrows and Tab`	To navigate the selection from one portion to next portion

The following example demonstrates default and custom format of DatePicker component with mask.

index.js
index.html
var datepickerObject = new ej.calendars.DatePicker({
    enableMask: true
});
datepickerObject.appendTo('#mask');

var datepickerFormat = new ej.calendars.DatePicker({
    enableMask: true,
    format: "M/d/yyyy",
});
datepickerFormat.appendTo('#format');
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 DatePicker control</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-calendars/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
  <body>
    
    <div id="container" style="margin:50px auto 0; width:250px;">
        <br><br>
        <label class="custom-input-label">Mask support with default format</label>
        <br><br>
        <input id="mask">
        <br><br><br>
        <label class="custom-input-label">Mask support with custom format</label>
        <br><br>
        <input id="format">
        </div>
    
  
<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
  ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}   
      </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>

Configure Mask Placeholder

You can change mask placeholder value through property maskPlaceholder. By default , it takes the full name of date and time co-ordinates such as day, month, year, hour etc.

While changing to a culture other than English, ensure that locale text for the concerned culture is loaded through load method of L10n class for mask placeholder values like below.

//Load the L10n from ej2-base
import { L10n } from '@syncfusion/ej2-base';

//load the locale object to set the localized mask placeholder value
L10n.load({
'de': {
    'datepicker': { day: 'Tag' , month: 'Monat', year: 'Jahr' }
}
});

The following example demonstrates default and customized mask placeholder value.

index.js
index.html
var datepickerObject = new ej.calendars.DatePicker({
    enableMask: true
});
datepickerObject.appendTo('#mask');

var datepickerPlaceholder = new ej.calendars.DatePicker({
    enableMask: true,
    maskPlaceholder: {day: 'd', month: 'M', year: 'y'}
});
datepickerPlaceholder.appendTo('#placeholder');
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
    <title>Essential JS 2 DatePicker control</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls">
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion">
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-popups/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-calendars/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/25.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/syncfusion-helper.js" type ="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
  <body>
    
    <div id="container" style="margin:50px auto 0; width:250px;">
        <br><br>
        <label class="custom-input-label">Default mask placeholder</label>
        <br><br>
        <input id="mask">
        <br><br><br>
        <label class="custom-input-label">Custom mask placeholder</label>
        <br><br>
        <input id="placeholder">
        </div>
    
  

<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
  ele.style.visibility = "visible";
}   
      </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body></html>