title: New HTML 5 MONTH INPUT TYPE and IE 11 compatibility
body: <p>I'd like to take advantage of a new HTML 5 Input type for entering a month/year. A working example is shown here. Warning. You may have to use Chome or something other than IE to see it.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.w3schools.com/htmL/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_input_month" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3schools.com/htmL/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_input_month</a></p>
  
  <p>The code is pasted here:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  
  &lt;p&gt;
  Depending on browser support:&lt;br&gt;
  A date picker can pop-up when you enter the input field.
  &lt;/p&gt;
  
  &lt;form action="action_page.php"&gt;
    Birthday (month and year):
    &lt;input type="month" name="bdaymonth"&gt;
    &lt;input type="submit"&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  
  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; type="month" is not supported in Internet Explorer 10 and earlier versions.&lt;/p&gt;
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Our company is on IE9 and should be upgrading to IE 11 soon. I have IE 11 on the computer that I am using at the moment and I don't see any drop down calendar of any sort, just a plain text box for input.If IE 11 supported it, I would start developing with it. However, I wanted to see how it worked, because this input type seems to behave really poorly with IE9. Chrome seems to require a YYYY/MM/DD format for the input <em>value</em> property and while IE 9 will display this value in the same format, Chrome will display it using the local settings. I wanted to see how things look in IE 11. Surprise! no calendar! </p>
  
  <p>Wouldnt you expect IE 11 to support this input type or am I missing something? The referenced link suggests IE supports it but they didn't say which version. I wouldn't expect that only Edge would...</p>
  
  <p>Chrome displays the Month Year using the Name of the Month. Is there a way to get it to control the format and perhaps display in MM YYYY format? where MM = a 1 or 2 digit month number?</p>