How do i disable public holidays in a jQuery UI date picker?

Question

I\'m making a holiday booking application and obviously you don\'t need to book off holidays that are already given to you, so I need to know how I can disable, Christmas, f

Answer 1

You have to use beforeShowDay attribute of DatePicker like below:

$("#textboxid").datepicker({
beforeShowDay: function(date) {
var day = date.getDay();
return [day != 0,''];
}
})​​​​​;​

Above script will disable all Sundays.

Answer 2

you can exclude the dates like

var holidays = ["2014-02-27","2014-02-01"];
$( "#from" ).datepicker({
beforeShowDay: function(date){
    var datestring = jQuery.datepicker.formatDate('yy-mm-dd', date);
    return [ holidays.indexOf(datestring) == -1 ]
}
});

you can provide more dates to the holidays array