# How do I hide date format in HTML Form Entry module?

**URL:** <https://talk.openmrs.org/t/how-do-i-hide-date-format-in-html-form-entry-module/4292>\
**Category:** Ask OpenMRS\
**Tags:** html-form-entry\
**Created:** [January 14, 2016, 8:21am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/how-do-i-hide-date-format-in-html-form-entry-module/4292 "2016-01-14T08:21:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![slubwama1](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/slubwama1/32/1783_2.png) [@slubwama1](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/slubwama1)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 8:21am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/how-do-i-hide-date-format-in-html-form-entry-module/4292/1 "2016-01-14T08:21:23Z")

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Hello I am Lubwama Samuel From Makerere University MUSPH METS I would like to get a way of eliminating the (dd/mm/yyyy). that displays on the form when a concept with date datatype is used. Anyone who has tried it out.

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**Author:** ![mseaton](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/mseaton/32/8088_2.png) [@mseaton](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/mseaton)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 11:00am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/how-do-i-hide-date-format-in-html-form-entry-module/4292/2 "2016-01-14T11:00:33Z")

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Yes, see the “global properties” section on this page: [https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/HTML+Form+Entry+Module](https://wiki.openmrs.org/display/docs/HTML+Form+Entry+Module)

You can set the property: **htmlformentry.showDateFormat** to false to achieve this result.

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**Author:** ![slubwama1](https://talk.openmrs.org/user_avatar/talk.openmrs.org/slubwama1/32/1783_2.png) [@slubwama1](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/slubwama1)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 9:12am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/how-do-i-hide-date-format-in-html-form-entry-module/4292/3 "2016-01-15T09:12:04Z")

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Thank you Mike.