<.input type="date" /> in Phoenix 1.7.12 simple form

[LostKobrakai]

@CessK

but i cannot seem to know the difference between the 2 inputs.

The fact that you can have both elixir terms as well as strings returned is expected behaviour due to what I described here:

why does @form[:field].value changes from atom to string when other form fields change

This is because inputs don’t submit native elixir terms and the abstraction needs to support invalid inputs as well. For changeset based forms the :value key returns in order: changeset.changes[field] – elixir term, when the form submitted a valid value for the field changeset.params[field] – raw value as submitted, when the form submitted a invalid value for the field changeset.data[field] - initial elixir term, when there’s no change submitted (yet) So at least in the second case you by d…

Is there a reason to use a datetime field if you just deal with dates though? This should work just fine if the schema would use a date field like the form does.