Can the jQuery UI Datepicker be made to disable Saturdays and Sundays (and holidays)?

Question

I use a datepicker for choosing an appointment day. I already set the date range to be only for the next month. That works fine. I want to exclude Saturdays and Sundays f

Answer 1

You can use noWeekends function to disable the weekend selection

  $(function() {
     $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker({
     beforeShowDay: $.datepicker.noWeekends
     });
     });