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jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery - Fourth Edition

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jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery - Fourth Edition

Overview of this book

jQuery UI, the official UI widget library for jQuery, gives you a solid platform on which to build rich and engaging interfaces quickly, with maximum compatibility, stability, and effort. jQuery UI's ready-made widgets help to reduce the amount of code that you need to write to take a project from conception to completion. jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery has been specially revised for Version 1.10 of jQuery UI. It is written to maximize your experience with the library by breaking down each component and walking you through examples that progressively build up your knowledge, taking you from beginner to advanced user in a series of easy-to-follow steps. Throughout the book, you'll learn how to create a basic implementation of each component, then customize and configure the components to tailor them to your application. Each chapter will also show you the custom events fired by the components covered and how these events can be intercepted and acted upon to bring out the best of the library. We will then go on to cover the use of visually engaging, highly configurable user interface widgets. At the end of this book, we'll look at the functioning of all of the UI effects available in the jQuery UI library.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. The Datepicker Widget

The jQuery UI datepicker widget is probably the most refined and documented widget found in jQuery library. It has the biggest Application programming interface (API) and probably provides the most functionality out of all the widgets. It not only works completely out of the box, but is also highly configurable and robust.

Quite simply, the datepicker widget provides an interface that allows visitors of your site or application to select dates. Wherever a form field is required that asks for a date to be entered, the datepicker widget can be added. This means your visitors get to use an attractive and engaging widget, and you get dates in the format in which you expect them.

In this section, we will look at the following topics:

  • The default datepicker implementation

  • Exploring the configurable options

  • Implementing a trigger button

  • Configuring alternative animations

  • The dateFormat option

  • Easy localization

  • Multiple month datepickers

  • Data-range selection

  • Datepicker widget...