Dear communityI have an issue with adapting the ‘select a date’ question from the Qualtrics library to the format I want to use. I got it from Qualtrics library > Demographics > Calendar & Date Questions > Select a date (matrix). First I want to change the order: month - day - year into day - month - year, the dropdown lists of course need to follow this new order. Accordingly I want to translate everything into Dutch: ‘day’ → ‘dag’, ‘month’ → ‘maand’ and ‘year’ → ‘jaar’. Also the month dropdown list needs to be translated to Dutch. Last, I want to change the year range in the dropdown list to 1960-2011. I tried to adapt this through Java script but I got very weird dropdown lists every time. Can someone help me out with this issue? Or does someone knows an easier way to let respondents enter their date of birth in a fixed format? Thanks in advance!

So, it looks like you’ve set it up for flatpickr with classic layout and cleave with simple layout.If you are using flatpickr in classic layout your survey header in its entirety should be:<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/flatpickr/dist/flatpickr.min.css" rel="stylesheet" /><link href="https://npmcdn.com/flatpickr/dist/themes/material_red.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /><script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/combine/npm/flatpickr@4,npm/flatpickr@4/dist/l10n/nl.min.js"></script>And your JS should be only the addOnload function.

flatpickr is a much better date picker and integrates well with Qualtrics. There are a bunch of community posts about it. It supports any date formatand many languages.A second alternative if to use cleave.js to format the date as it is typed.A final alternative (my least preferred) is to use a side-by-side with dropdowns in three columns.

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