I have inherited some code using the jquerymobile datebox. The code so far concentrates on making the application look correct. I need to make it work so that when a date is selected, the server is called with the date and a new page loaded. Most examples just change the date in the page.
The code so far is :-
$('#daycal').live('click', function() {
$('#catchdate').datebox('open');
});
$( "#catchdate" ).bind( "change", function(event, ui) {
$("#test1").val("xyz");
});
And
<div data-role="fieldcontain">
<label for="catchdate">Some Date</label>
<input name="catchdate" type="date" data-role="datebox" id="catchdate" data-options='{"mode":"calbox", "useNewStyle":true, "theme":true, "themeHeader":"f", "themeDateHigh":"f", "themeDatePick":"e", "themeDate":"f", "centerHoriz":true}' />
<input id="test1" type="text"/> <!-- Later changed to a function call -->
</div>
In my simple test I expected the text in the input to change when a date was selected.
I have seen an example using the bind to change event, but I cannot get it to work. In the example I was just changing the value in an input element, later this will be changed to a function call.
I also saw somewhere in my search for an answer, a comment that 'live' was deprecated.
Finally, I thought I could use closeCallback ('Callbacks ('openCallback' and 'closeCallback') are simple to work with...') but could not find any examples of how it should be used.
What changes do I need to make to obtain the functionality I need?
You could try using the close function of the date box, so that when user changes the date selection he makes and closes the date box you can call the server method with the selected date:
$('#DateSelectorId').bind('datebox', function (e, passed) {
if ( passed.method === 'close' ) {
// selected date
var date = $('#DateSelectorId').val();
// make your service method and change page to another page
}
});
think this can fix it
$('#catchdate').on('datebox', function(e, p) {
if ( p.method === 'close' ) {
alert('DO SOMETHING');
}
});
u can go and test it on Fiddle
**i think u need some validation check for input box empty or not
I'm using mobiscroll date scroller in an app. I have it set up to initialize to a date I get from the database and set as the value of my input field. Here is my code:
$(function(){
$("#requestDate").scroller({
preset: 'date',
theme: 'jqm',
display: 'modal',
mode: 'scroller',
dateOrder: 'mdyyyy',
dateFormat: 'm/d/yyyy'
});
var requestDate = $("#requestDate").val();
if(requestDate != ""){
requestDate = new Date(requestDate);
$("#requestDate").scroller('setDate', requestDate, true);
}
});
Here is my form field:
<input type="text" name="requestDate" id="requestDate" data-role="mobiscroll" value="2013,7,25" data-mini="true" readonly="" class="ui-input-text ui-body-f ui-corner-all ui-shadow-inset ui-mini">
This shows the date formatted in the text input and defaults to that date when mobiscroll is opened. Except for in Safari. In safari the date shows as NaN/NaN/NaN. How do I fix this?
Thanks!
You don't need to call setDate, just put the date in the correct format as the input value.
See example: http://jsfiddle.net/RQzbw/
Note 1: Use 'mdyy' and 'm/d/yy', yyyy is incorrect (see documentation)
Note 2: .scroller() is deprecated, use .mobiscroll() instead. If you are using an older version, you should upgrade to latest.
I have a mobile datepicker that works except for its event functions, which are not called. What is the problem?
<script type="text/javascript">
$("#calendar").datepicker({
onSelect: function () { alert('1'); },
beforeShow: function () { alert('2'); },
beforeShowDay: function () { alert('3'); }
});
</script>
<div>
<input id="calendar" type="date"/>
</div>
Sorry before I haven't realised of the input type that's not correct. Datepicker usually works with input type text.
Date is a new input type on HTML5, you are using that calendar instead of jQuery datepicker, that's why events doesn't work.
Check this fiddle for your example.
I would suggest you to use datepicker because input=date isn't supported by many browsers and has less options.
I expect that in near future we could use HTML 5 features supported by all browsers and write less javascript code.
I'm working on some internationalization using jQueryUI. I have a DatePicker control on a form that is properly working in the French language.
When I select a date, for example August 15, 2012, the DatePicker will display 15 Aoû, 2012 as I would expect. My issue however, is that when the form is posted, the value of the DatePicker is posted as '15 Aoû, 2012' which now needs to be translated on the server before it can be saved properly.
My question is, is there a built-in way inside the jQueryUI DatePicker so that I can have it always post to the server in a consistent format, regardless of which language the control is being displayed in? If there isn't a built-in way, what options exist for achieving this?
I realize that I can change the dateformat to something like 08/15/2012 instead of using the textual representation, however this isn't what I want to do.
There's 2 configuration options for that: altField and altFormat. http://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/#option-altField
If you specify an altField, that field will be updated too, and will have the altFormat.
Normally you will want make the altField a hidden field, soyou can ignore the regular field and send to db the altField.
As you'll have noticed, supplying a dateFormat works well for newly entered dates, but it does not alter the value attribute which was already supplied to the date input field. It took me some time and I'm not sure whether this solution is ideal, but here's my situation explained and the code which solves it. Might help others with the same problem in the future. In my example I'm using dd/MM/yyyy as the display format.
The page contains any number of date input fields, which may or may not already have a value attribute supplied in the format yyyy-MM-dd, as specified by W3C.
Some browsers will have their own input control to handle dates. At the time of writing, that is for instance Opera and Chrome. These should expect and store a date in the abovementioned format, while rendering them according to the client's regional settings. You probably do not want/need to create a jqueryui datepicker in these browsers.
Browsers which don't have a built-in control to handle date input fields will need the jqueryui datepicker along with an 'alt', invisible field.
The invisible, alt input field with the yyyy-MM-dd format must have the original name and a unique id in order for forms logic to keep working.
Finally, the yyyy-MM-dd value of the display input field must be parsed and replaced with its desired counterpart.
So, here's the code, using Modernizr to detect whether or not the client is able to natively render date input fields.
if (!Modernizr.inputtypes.date) {
$('input[type=date]').each(function (index, element) {
/* Create a hidden clone, which will contain the actual value */
var clone = $(this).clone();
clone.insertAfter(this);
clone.hide();
/* Rename the original field, used to contain the display value */
$(this).attr('id', $(this).attr('id') + '-display');
$(this).attr('name', $(this).attr('name') + '-display');
/* Create the datepicker with the desired display format and alt field */
$(this).datepicker({ dateFormat: "dd/mm/yy", altField: "#" + clone.attr("id"), altFormat: "yy-mm-dd" });
/* Finally, parse the value and change it to the display format */
if ($(this).attr('value')) {
var date = $.datepicker.parseDate("yy-mm-dd", $(this).attr('value'));
$(this).attr('value', $.datepicker.formatDate("dd/mm/yy", date));
}
});
}
<input type="text" name='fieldName' id="datepicker" value="" style="width: 100px;" />
<script type="text/javascript">
$( "#datepicker" ).datepicker( "option", "dateFormat", 'dd/mm/yy' );
$( "#datepicker" ).datepicker();
</script>
It appears someone else had this question or a similar one prior to yours.
If you read this stackoverflow answer, the author was trying to show the date in one format and pass the data to MySQL in another format.
The prior answer in that link gets you set up to access the selected value as a variable. Now all you need is to wire in a parseDate to your selected date variable.
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#cal').datepicker({
dateFormat: 'dd M yy',
onSelect: function(dateText, inst) {
var dateAsString = dateText; //the first parameter of this function
var newDateFormat = $.datepicker.parseDate('dd-mm-yyyy', dateAsString);
}
});
</script>
Check the parseDate link for settings and formatting.
Hope this helps!
Basically, you should not re-format the date. Instead, you should read JavaScript's Date object from Datepicker, via getDate() method. Then, you need to pass it to server.
The question is how. Basically, what you want is some common format. If you use JSON the answer is very simple, just put date object and JSON's stringify() function will automatically format it to ISO8601.
As you may see from Wikipedia, ISO8601 was designed to interchange date and time reliably, therefore that's what you should use.
It might be helpful to know that modern web browsers support Date object's toISOString() method.
As #Pawel-Dyda mentioned,
There's a
getDate() method
var currentDate = $( ".selector" ).datepicker( "getDate" );
Here's an example of what it returns: Wed Jan 20 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0300.
You can parse it in Javascript, PHP, in SQL or whatever.
MySQL parsing examlple:
select str_to_date('Wed Jan 20 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0300','%a %b %d %Y %H:%i:%s');
Returns:
2016-01-20 00:00:00
Solution working for ASP.NET
#using (Html.BeginForm("ActionName", "ControllerName"))
{
#Html.HiddenFor(m => m.DateFrom)
#Html.HiddenFor(m => m.DateTo)
<div class="form-group">
#Html.LabelFor(m => m.DateFrom)
<input id="datepicker-date-from" type="text" class="form-control datepicker" value="#Model.DateFrom.Date.ToString("dd.MM.yyyy")"/>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
#Html.LabelFor(m => m.DateTo)
<input id="datepicker-date-to" type="text" class="form-control datepicker" value="#Model.DateTo.Date.ToString("dd.MM.yyyy")" />
</div>
<input type="submit" class="btn btn-sn btn-primary" value="Download" />
}
#section scripts {
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
$("#datepicker-date-from").datepicker(
{
dateFormat: "dd.mm.yy",
altField: #Html.IdFor(m => m.DateFrom),
altFormat: "yy-mm-dd"
});
$("#datepicker-date-to").datepicker(
{
dateFormat: "dd.mm.yy",
altField: #Html.IdFor(m => m.DateTo),
altFormat: "yy-mm-dd"
});
});
</script>
}
Right now when I click on the date control, I start up at the year 2000! How can I tell it to start showing the current month of the current year?
Thanks!
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#DOB').datepicker({ defaultDate: null });
});
</script>
With the code above when I click the control I get July 2000 as the starting date.
Set the defaultDate parameter. This works if the attached field is blank. See here:
http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Datepicker#option-defaultDate