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

The datepicker has this functionality built in!

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

http://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/#utility-noWeekends

Answer 2

If you don't want the weekends to appear at all, simply:

CSS

th.ui-datepicker-week-end,
td.ui-datepicker-week-end {
    display: none;
}

Answer 3

These answers were very helpful. Thank you.

My contribution below adds an array where multiple days can return false (we're closed every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). And I bundled the specific dates plus years and the no-weekends functions.

If you want weekends off, add [Saturday], [Sunday] to the closedDays array.

$(document).ready(function(){

    $("#datepicker").datepicker({
        beforeShowDay: nonWorkingDates,
        numberOfMonths: 1,
        minDate: '05/01/09',
        maxDate: '+2M',
        firstDay: 1
    });

    function nonWorkingDates(date){
        var day = date.getDay(), Sunday = 0, Monday = 1, Tuesday = 2, Wednesday = 3, Thursday = 4, Friday = 5, Saturday = 6;
        var closedDates = [[7, 29, 2009], [8, 25, 2010]];
        var closedDays = [[Monday], [Tuesday]];
        for (var i = 0; i < closedDays.length; i++) {
            if (day == closedDays[i][0]) {
                return [false];
            }

        }

        for (i = 0; i < closedDates.length; i++) {
            if (date.getMonth() == closedDates[i][0] - 1 &&
            date.getDate() == closedDates[i][1] &&
            date.getFullYear() == closedDates[i][2]) {
                return [false];
            }
        }

        return [true];
    }




});

Answer 4

The solution here that everyone likes seems to very intense... personally I think it's much easier to do something like this:

       var holidays = ["12/24/2012", "12/25/2012", "1/1/2013", 
            "5/27/2013", "7/4/2013", "9/2/2013", "11/28/2013", 
            "11/29/2013", "12/24/2013", "12/25/2013"];

       $( "#requestShipDate" ).datepicker({
            beforeShowDay: function(date){
                show = true;
                if(date.getDay() == 0 || date.getDay() == 6){show = false;}//No Weekends
                for (var i = 0; i < holidays.length; i++) {
                    if (new Date(holidays[i]).toString() == date.toString()) {show = false;}//No Holidays
                }
                var display = [show,'',(show)?'':'No Weekends or Holidays'];//With Fancy hover tooltip!
                return display;
            }
        });

This way your dates are human readable. It's not really that different it just makes more sense to me this way.

Answer 5

In the latest Bootstrap 3 version (bootstrap-datepicker.js) beforeShowDay expects a result in this format:

{ enabled: false, classes: "class-name", tooltip: "Holiday!" }

Alternatively, if you don't care about the CSS and tooltip then simply return a boolean false to make the date unselectable.

Also, there is no $.datepicker.noWeekends, so you need to do something along the lines of this:

var HOLIDAYS = {  // Ontario, Canada holidays
    2017: {
        1: { 1: "New Year's Day"},
        2: { 20: "Family Day" },
        4: { 17: "Easter Monday" },
        5: { 22: "Victoria Day" },
        7: { 1: "Canada Day" },
        8: { 7: "Civic Holiday" },
        9: { 4: "Labour Day" },
        10: { 9: "Thanksgiving" },
        12: { 25: "Christmas", 26: "Boxing Day"}
    }
};

function filterNonWorkingDays(date) {
    // Is it a weekend?
    if ([ 0, 6 ].indexOf(date.getDay()) >= 0)
        return { enabled: false, classes: "weekend" };
    // Is it a holiday?
    var h = HOLIDAYS;
    $.each(
        [ date.getYear() + 1900, date.getMonth() + 1, date.getDate() ], 
        function (i, x) {
            h = h[x];
            if (typeof h === "undefined")
                return false;
        }
    );
    if (h)
        return { enabled: false, classes: "holiday", tooltip: h };
    // It's a regular work day.
    return { enabled: true };
}

$("#datePicker").datepicker({ beforeShowDay: filterNonWorkingDays });