Date Picker

In the toolbox for webform is there a datepicker? I can find one for a window form but not for a web form Does one exist or does micrsoft not support it for web forms? Or must one rely on dropdown boxes for Month Day and Year?

If you know any javascript and html here is the best date picker around...

I use this everywhere...I don't take the credit for creating it, but the creator is in the code.

Just copy the code to a folder called datapicker on your server and follow the example.asp page for inserting HTML into any web page you want on your server for the date picker to work...

Wow! That picker is a pearler moojjoo. I've recently needed a date picker on two seperate projects. I'll be using this one now!

Datepicker is great on one field but how is it possible to make it work in the same form for 2 different input fields?
I have "arrival" and "departure" and I have tried many times..together is not working..Thanks for any help
ema

Use one calendaricon for each field, then use this code (I have done it this way):

Arrival:
Departure:
I also use <a href="javascript:"> before the img just to make the cursor change also.

By the way, why does this forum separate javascript into two words when I write it inside a code. I wrote it in one word.

Couldn't get that one to work in Mozilla, for whatever that's worth. I clicked and clicked on the little icon, but nothing happened.

Your suggest was perfect,thank you!
Can I please ask you one more thing?
After I insert a date by datapicker,I pass all variables to an overcheck form,such as < %Response write arrivo%>,before insert into the database,to avoid mistakes

Unfortunately instead of date I get // which calls the javascript..
Any idea how to get printed the value made by the javascript?
Ciaoo

I'm not sure what you mean with this, but perhaps it's the / that causes the trouble. Personally I write dates in this format; yyyy-mm-dd because I use a Access database, and Access doesn't love date's submitted in the format dd-mm-yyyy.

I see that you are using ASP, if you wan't to I can drop you my coding to make the date be written like this: yyyy-mm-dd.

Thanks for reply,
More than date format problem is just print at video the selected date.For example.I'm using a javascript to hide "mailto:" to spammers.

<a href="javascript://"onClick="sendmail('info@anticopozzo.com');return false">info@anticopozzo.com</a>

If I select the mail link,show "javascript://"


This exactly happens with my form,I can not get any date or number in the overcheck form but // ,they just don't pass throught

If i digit a date manually,date pass throught to the next form,ready to be inserted in db access..
Hope you undertand my bad english
Ciaoo
ema

Is this script cross-browser compatible? I couldn't get it to work in Mozilla either...

Don't think so. Work's in IE and Opera, but not in Netscrape.

I got it to work in Mozilla 1.4 by using the form name instead of "all" in the onclick:
IE only:

IE 6 and Mozilla (and probably IE 5.0+, haven't tested it)

What a nice script!

I am having issues. Keeps telling me the Calendar object is not defined.

Anybody else run into this issue?

This little calendar looks awesome! Too bad its not cross-browser compatible (minor tweaks)...

joyal422, what version browser are you running?

WHy dont u add an ID to the text field and refrence it by "getElementByID('id')" method.

It seems to work after that !

eg:
<input type="text" id="Arrival" name="Arrive" value="">&nbsp;<img src="images/calendaricon.gif" height="17" width="17" border=0 onClick="popUpCalendar(this, document.getElementById('Arrival'), 'm-dd-yyyy', 0, 0)">

does it work now ?!?...lemme know.

koooool can I have an example script page which I can just use it in my site

The getElementByID will only work in the later browser versions such as Netscape 6 and IE 5 and up. I found a better calendar popup that's cross browser compatible and actually paid real money for it. Way easier to implement as well and looks great too. This calendar allows for a number of standard return and display formats -- making my life a lot easier.

Check it out http://www.kerberosdev.net/Products/02_Date_Picker.asp.

LOL - their second demonstration doesn't work in Firefox. Even worse is that you can't close the calendar unless you select a day....

Do you need to support v4 browers?

Nah - Closing the calendar is no problem - it's not explicitly mentioned there, but you can implement the thing with an option that allows you to select no date and close the dropdown (by passing a true / false parameter at initialisation). I checked in firefox and my older browsers and it seems to work fine with no problems. I won't know if the previous dp version supported it or not - I got an update from them the other day and installed it immediately. Personally I think those guys should mention more on their website (they'd sell a hell of a lot more) - You get the manual and then you find out that what's on the website is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

As for the V4 support - I checked out the source on the thing - not an iframe or anything like that in sight - the entire thing runs on DIV's SPAN's and whatnot + a lot of browser version checking and alternative algortihms.

This seems to work well, but I cannot get the month and year drop down menu's to work. They will simply not expand on Mozilla.

Anybody any ideas ?

i have tried several but this really is the best yet. but i have one problem though.
the calendar is ok on first load but once i fetched a record and tries to edit a date field, the calendar does not pop up.

any work around this?

many thanks!

I'm glad I found this datepicker! However, I noticed that when using IE 5.2 for Mac that the wrong date is displayed as Today. I checked IE on my PC and it shows the correct date for today (Mon, 13 Dec 2004). But on IE on my Mac todays date is displayed as "Fri, 3 Dec. 2004". Does anyone know of a fix for this? Any help would be so greatly appreciated.

hello
can anyone help me..
i encountered a problem when i collaborate the datepicker with my form
but when i create a new form it runs smoothly..
the error i encountered says in internet explorer is
line: 152
char: 4
Error: object required
code: 0
but the code simply contains:
<TD><asp:linkbutton id="LinkButton1" runat="server" Width="64px" Height="24px">Origination</asp:linkbutton>
but when i tried deleting some lines i found the error
when the form load my command there is table.visible = false
but when i comment the table.visible = false
the datepicker is running fine..
but when i tried it with a new form.. i tried hiding it and unhiding it.. the datepicker is running fine
do you know what seems to be the problem? thanks

the error suddenly been fix..
wahhh
thanks anyway

And How can I change the default date that appears in the Calendar Box? It allways displays the current date, and I want to set default to 1/1/1980.

Thanx

Hello,

I try to use this marvellous date picker in my date search field but...

<input id="Arrival" NAME="xyz" VALUE="<%=strDate%>" size="20"></font>&nbsp;<img src="/datepicker/calendaricon.gif" alt="Choose Date" border=0 onClick="popUpCalendar(this, document.all.xyz, 'dd/mm/yyyy', 0, 0)">

But when I click a date in the calendar, instead of calendar cto close and date selected is to appear on the textbox, a new page pops up with the following url:

javascript:dateSelected=4;closeCalendar();

What may be the cause for this?
Thanks

Its OK I justed sussed it out. it was to do with the page target.

Well thanks everyone in this thread, as this is a great calendar and some great comments.