jQuery Mobile date picker

Question

Is there someone out there that has a good date picker for jQuery mobile?

I\'m going to let the user select a \"from\" date and a \"to\" date and I haven\'t found anythi

Answer 1

I worked on updating the jquery ui datepicker to latest versions of jquery , jqueryui and jquery mobile so for jq1.9.1 jqui 1.10.2 and jqm 1.3.0. I prefered to leave as is my previous answer so you can see how it evolved.

the changeMonth and changeYear dropdown needed special care to work (unstylying was frequent)

here it is how i updated the experimental jqueryui datepicker for jqmobile :

js bin code snippet

You can link to the datepicker script instead of the whole jqueryui package.

The readonly prop prevents the keyboard to appear on ios

It is just a tweak of the datepicker to make it work on jqm, the goal would be to be able to override the _generatehtml function of datepicker widget and being able to give as input te jquery mobile theme to use. So you'll not need that whole bunch of addClass and avoid unnecessary DOM manipulation

I only tested for ios 6 (iphone, ipad) and desktop (chrome, firefox, safari), let us know about other tests.

Hope it helps as mush as needed it :)

here is all the code separated in html, js and css :

HTML

 
 
    
    
     
     
    
    
    

 
  

    

        
jQuery UI's Datepicker Styled for mobile adapted by Aureltime
      
    
    

        

            

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JS

//reset type=date inputs to text
$.mobile.page.prototype.options.degradeInputs.date = true;

$("#form").trigger("create");
$( document )
  .on( "pageinit", function(){

$("#date")
    .prop("readonly", "true")
    .on("click", function(){
$input=$(this);
$next=$input.next();

if($next.hasClass("hasDatepicker"))
  $next.hide();

$input
      .hide()
      .after( $( "
", {   id  :   "datepicker_"+$input.attr("id")}).datepicker(
        {
          altField          : "#" + $input.attr( "id" ),
          altFormat         : "dd/mm/yy",
          defaultDate       : $input.val(),
          showOtherMonths   : true,
          selectOtherMonths : true,
          //showWeek        : true,
          changeYear        : true,
          changeMonth       : true,
          //showButtonPanel : true,
          //beforeShowDay   : beforeShowDay,
          onSelect          : function( dateText, inst)
          {             $("#datepicker_"+$input.attr("id")).hide();
$input.show();
          }
        }));
    });
        });


(function($, undefined ) {

    //cache previous datepicker ui method
    var prevDp = $.fn.datepicker;

    //rewrite datepicker
    $.fn.datepicker = function( options ){

        var dp = this;

        //call cached datepicker plugin
        prevDp.call( this, options );

        //extend with some dom manipulation to update the markup for jQM
        //call immediately
        function updateDatepicker(event){

          $( ".ui-datepicker-header", dp ).addClass("ui-body-c ui-corner-top").removeClass("ui-corner-all");
            $( ".ui-datepicker-prev, .ui-datepicker-next", dp ).attr("href", "#");
            $( ".ui-datepicker-prev", dp ).buttonMarkup({iconpos: "notext", icon: "arrow-l", shadow: true, corners: true});
            $( ".ui-datepicker-next", dp ).buttonMarkup({iconpos: "notext", icon: "arrow-r", shadow: true, corners: true});
            $( ".ui-datepicker-calendar th", dp ).addClass("ui-bar-c");
            $( ".ui-datepicker-calendar td", dp ).addClass("ui-body-c");
            $( ".ui-datepicker-calendar a", dp ).buttonMarkup({corners: false, shadow: false}); 
            $( ".ui-datepicker-calendar a.ui-state-active", dp ).addClass("ui-btn-active"); // selected date
            $( ".ui-datepicker-calendar a.ui-state-highlight", dp ).addClass("ui-btn-up-e"); // today"s date

            if(typeof event != "undefined")
                {
                var classe= $(event.target).attr("class");
                //alert(classe);
                }
          $( ".ui-datepicker-calendar .ui-btn", dp ).each(function(){
                    var el = $(this);
                    var buttonText = el.find( ".ui-btn-text" );
                    // remove extra button markup - necessary for date value to be interpreted correctly
                    if(buttonText.length)
                        el.html( el.find( ".ui-btn-text" ).text() ); 
                    });
        //      }

        $( dp )
            .off()
            .on( "click", updateDatepicker)
            .find("select")
            .on( "change", function(event){updateDatepicker(event);});
        }

        //update now
        updateDatepicker();

        //return jqm obj 
        return this;
    };
})( jQuery );

CSS

div.hasDatepicker{ display: block; padding: 0; overflow: visible;  margin: 8px 0; }
.ui-datepicker {  overflow: visible; margin: 0; max-width: 500px;  }
.ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-header { position:relative; padding:.4em 0; border-bottom: 0; font-weight: bold; }
.ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-prev, .ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-next { padding: 1px 0 1px 2px; position:absolute; top: .5em; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -9999px; }

.ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-prev { left:6px; }
.ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-next { right:6px; }
.ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-title { margin: 0 2.3em; line-height: 1.8em; text-align: center; }
.ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-title select { font-size:1em; margin:1px 0; }
.ui-datepicker select.ui-datepicker-month-year {width: 100%;}
.ui-datepicker select.ui-datepicker-month, 
.ui-datepicker select.ui-datepicker-year { width: 49%;}
.ui-datepicker table {width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; margin:0; }
.ui-datepicker td { border-width: 1px; padding: 0; text-align: center; }
.ui-datepicker td span, .ui-datepicker td a { display: block; padding: .2em 0; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; border-width: 0; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; }

.ui-datepicker-calendar th { padding-top: .3em; padding-bottom: .3em; }
.ui-datepicker-calendar th span, .ui-datepicker-calendar span.ui-state-default { opacity: .3; }
.ui-datepicker-calendar td a { padding-top: .5em; padding-bottom: .5em; }

Here is the updated version to work with jqm 1.4 : jsbin jqm 1.4.0

It is taking account of changes of jquery mobile 1.4.0 and needs a little bit less of dom manipulation