jQuery-Mobile-DateBox

DateBox is a jQuery-mobile based date and time picker.

This is based in part on the work of Todd M. Horst, and his Android Like Date Picker 2

DateBox Features

• Multiple Data-Entry Modes:

  • Android style date picker
  • Calendar style date picker
  • Slide style date picker
  • Flip Wheel style date or time picker
  • 12 and 24 hour time picker
  • Duration time picker

• 4 Different display modes:

  • Standard, click-outside-to-close popup mode
  • Forced input modal popup mode
  • Unique page dialog mode
  • Inline mode

• Fully localized:

  • Configurable Month names
  • Configurable Day Names
  • All labels and buttons configuratble

• Supports data-limiting of input:

  • Configurable maximum and minimum years (android mode)
  • Configurable maximum and minimum number of days from "today" (both date modes)
  • Allows blacklisting of days of the week or specific dates (calendar mode)
  • Allows selecting specific day from any week selection (calendar mode)

• Automatically parses hand-entered or pre-entered dates on open

• Auto-bind's to data-type='datebox', options are configurable via data-options.

Suggested Use

// BEFORE loading jQM
$( document ).bind( "mobileinit", function(){
	$.mobile.page.prototype.options.degradeInputs.date = 'text';
});

No Option Overrides:

<input type="date" data-role="datebox" name="somedate" />

With Option Overrides:

<input type="date" data-role="datebox" name="somedate" data-options='{"buttonTheme": "b", "dateFormat": "mm/dd/YYYY"}' />

Global Option Overrides:

// AFTER loading jQM
jQuery.extend(jQuery.mobile.datebox.prototype.options, {
	'dateFormat': 'dd.mm.yyyy',
	'headerFormat': 'dd.mm.yyyy'
});

Available Options

Please see the full api documantation at: dev.jtsage.com

Runtime Operation (Scripting / Extending)

Please see the full api documantation at: dev.jtsage.com

Just-In-Time options updating

The following options can be changed after initialization (i.e. in per-page scripts after load). Almost all will require you to refresh the control.

• Data limiting:
  • minDays & maxDays & afterToday
  • minYear & maxYear
  • blackDays & blackDates
  • calWeekMode & calWeekModeFirstDay
  • minuteStep
• Display / Internationalization:
  • calStartDay
  • daysOfWeek, daysOfWeekShort, monthsOfYear, monthsOfYearShort, headerFormat
  • dateFormat (probably - it will throw off reopens though)
  • Dialog mode forcing (either on or off)
• Any of the calendar of slide mode themes (except the base theme) & disabledDayColor & calWeekModeHighLight
• closeCallback

The following options happen to early, and cannot be changed post-initialization by script events.

• Operation mode
• Any of the labels on buttons / window titles.
• Any of the themes on the datebox or time modes.
• Any of the options related to inline display
• noButtonFocusMode, useModal, zindex, noAnimation, timeFormat, fieldsOrder