javascript - How do you programmatically clear HTML5 date fields?

Question

I'm looking for a way to programmatically clear HTML5 date fields with Javascript (specifically jQuery). So far I have tried two methods which I thought obvious:

$('input[type=date]').val('');

$('input[type=date]').val('0000-00-00');

But neither of them work on the latest version of Chrome for PCs at least, haven't tried them with other browsers or platforms yet. Is there an API call or something that can clear date fields in a cross-browser way? Solutions I have searched for like this require the user to clear the date field whereas I need this to be done programmatically.

Answer 1

$("input[type=date]").val("") works for me in chrome. It sets the input field to dd/mm/yyyy.

Maybe it's browser specific. Most browsers have only partial or no support for this input: http://caniuse.com/input-datetime