Question

Does anyone know of a method to prevent the jQuery timepicker addon from automatically opening up when the textbox is focused? The documentation doesn’t seem to provide a way and I’m currently looking at the source seeing if I can add the functionality but have I overlooked a simple way to accomplish this?

Answer 1

How about just initiate the datetimepicker upon the button clicked (as well as focus the input box), and destroy the object when the picker is closed?

$('#button').click(function() {
    $('#timepicker').datetimepicker({
        onClose: function(dateText, inst) {
           $(this).datetimepicker('destroy');
        }
    }).focus();
});

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/william/NRH9r/