Datepicker Textbox Element
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1 Datepicker Textbox Element - #datepicker_textbox {}
The datepicker textbox element produces an HTML textbox that automatically pops up a jQuery UI Datepicker when the control takes the focus.
Usage
#datepicker_textbox{ id=date1, text="5/25/2013", options=[ {dateFormat, "mm/dd/yy"}, {showButtonPanel, true} ] }
Attributes
- text - (string)
- Set the textbox's contents.
- html_encode - (boolean)
- Set to true to safely html-encode the text.
- options - (list of {Key,Value} properties)
- Set the jQuery UI options. You can view the full
list of options at the official jQuery UI Datepicker API Documentation.
Here are a few common options:
- formatDate - (format string)
- Change the format of the displayed date (e.g.: ="yy-mm-dd"=, ="mm/dd/yy"= ).
- showOtherMonths - (boolean)
- Set to true to allow the datepicker to show the previous and next month's last and first days in the otherwise blank spaces.
- selectOtherMonths - (boolean)
- If
showOtherMonths
is true, then clicking those leading and trailing dates will also put the date in the textbox. - numberOfMonths - (integer)
- Display the specified number of months in the calendar popup rather than just a single month.
- changeMonth - (boolean)
- Put a "Month" dropdown box in the calendar popup
- changeYear - (boolean)
- Put a "Year" dropdown box in the calendar popup
- showButtonPanel - (boolean)
- Put a button panel below the calendar popup which includes a "Today" button, and a "Close" button (the text of which can be customized.
- disabled - (boolean)
- Set to true to disable this textbox in the
browser (sets the HTML
disabled
property, effectly greying out the element). Can be dynamically re-enabled withwf:enable(ElementID)
orwf:wire(ElementID, #enable{})
(Default:false
) - readonly - (boolean)
- Set to true to make this element readonly in the
browser. Can be toggled with
wf:wire(ElementID, #make_writable{})
andwf:wire(ElementID, #make_readonly{})
. - placeholder - (string)
- Sets the placeholder text (text that will be
in the textbox until the user focuses in the textbox). This uses the
HTML5 placeholder attribute, which is only supported in newer browsers.
To add support for older-browsers, you will need to link a placeholder
script in your template. You can do this by adding the following to your
template inside the
<head>
section after loading jQuery.
<script src='/nitrogen/jquery.placeholder.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
- next - (atom)
- If set with a valid control ID, pressing the enter key in the textbox will automatically move focus to the specified control.
- postback - (Erlang term)
- If set, pressing the enter key in the textbox will automatically initiate a Nitrogen postback with the supplied term.
- html_name - (string)
- The name attribute of the textbox.