ASP.net and JQuery UI Datepicker

Question

Given:

Where the id = datepicker tells the javascript to attach all the datepicker code to

Answer 1

I think it's a good practice to have a class which triggers a date picker to be created for everything that has it, such as 'js-date-picker'

then to avoid duplication of code, you can just write the following JS once:

$(document).ready(function() { 
    $(".js-date-picker").datepicker();
});

to get ASP.net to set a class on the textbox correctly so it uses this class, just add CssClass="js-date-picker" to the tag:

Hope this clarifies things for you.