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Karen Brown 39Karen Brown 39 

How can I stop a date field automatically opening in visualforce?

When I add a date field to a visualforce page and its an input field the calendar automatically opens even if a date is already populated, and this means users have to click out of the date field to see the other fields for data entry.  I tested if the first input field in the section is not a date field and this works, but many of our sections start with date fields... 

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Ryan GreeneRyan Greene
This is a common issue and I don't know of a good fix other than not using Date fields as the first field on a page. Whenever a Date field is the first field (top left) the calendar will always automatically open. If you can move it over or down this will solve your problem.

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Ryan GreeneRyan Greene
This is a common issue and I don't know of a good fix other than not using Date fields as the first field on a page. Whenever a Date field is the first field (top left) the calendar will always automatically open. If you can move it over or down this will solve your problem.
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Karen Brown 39Karen Brown 39
Thanks thats a shame, can i change the visualforce to display in detail with an edit button instead?