# Intl.DateTimeFormat() constructor — Style shortcuts

> dateStyle : The date formatting style to use. Possible values are "full", "long", "medium", and "short". It expands to styles for weekday, day, month, year, and era, with the exact combination of values depending on the locale. When formatting objects such as {{jsxref("Temporal.PlainDate")}}, {{jsxr

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dateStyle : The date formatting style to use. Possible values are "full", "long", "medium", and "short". It expands to styles for weekday, day, month, year, and era, with the exact combination of values depending on the locale. When formatting objects such as {{jsxref("Temporal.PlainDate")}}, {{jsxref("Temporal.PlainYearMonth")}}, and {{jsxref("Temporal.PlainMonthDay")}}, dateStyle will resolve to only those fields relevant to the object. timeStyle : The time formatting style to use. Possible values are "full", "long", "medium", and "short". It expands to styles for hour, minute, second, and timeZoneName, with the exact combination of values depending on the locale.

&gt; [!NOTE] &gt; dateStyle and timeStyle can be used with each other, but not with other date-time component options (e.g., weekday, hour, month, etc.).

You can format different object types depending on which of the style shortcut options you include

If the dateStyle is specified, then you can format {{jsxref("Temporal.PlainDate")}}, {{jsxref("Temporal.PlainYearMonth")}}, and {{jsxref("Temporal.PlainMonthDay")}} objects. If the timeStyle is specified, then you can format {{jsxref("Temporal.PlainTime")}} objects. If either dateStyle or timeStyle is specified, then you can format {{jsxref("Temporal.PlainDateTime")}} and {{jsxref("Date")}} objects.

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