Question

Are there helpers for jquery ui?

@Html.DatePicker(m=>m.Date)

or

@JQueryUI.DatePicker('DateFieldId');

I think it can be more conveniently…

Answer 1

You can add custom attributes/classes to your standard Html controls and then write Jquery selectors to wire them up:

Build this HTML (you could write a helper method extension to do this):

<input class="ui-datepicker" data-min="1/1/2000" type="text" />

Then in your javascript:

            (function($) {

                $(".ui-datepicker").datepicker({
                     minDate: Date.parse($(this).attr("data-min"))
                });

            })(jQuery);