Can I use an HTML input type "date" to collect only a year?
<p>I have a field that is required to collect a year from the user (i.e. a date with a year resolution - for ease of storage I'd prefer to store an actual date value and not a number). </p>

<p>I would like to use the date input UI supported by modern browsers or <a href="https://afarkas.github.io/webshim/demos/demos/cfgs/input-date.html" rel="noreferrer">webshims</a> because its nice and plays well with modern platforms. I couldn't figure out how to get the UI to display only the year. Any ideas?</p>

<p>If there is no platform support, ideally I would like to have a UI something like you can <a href="http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/api/javascript/ui/calendar#configuration-dates" rel="noreferrer">see here</a> if you click "Preview" and then click the top of the widget a couple of times, except in reverse: when you first click the input you get a widget with a list of decades, then you drill down to choose the year, then the UI closes.</p>