Question

I am using jQuery for making a datepicker and I am facing the following problem with it:-

1. I want to show a minimum date of 1970 in the drop down menu of the calender which I am not able to do.
2. I also want to show a maximum year of (current year – 20) in the same drop down.

How can these things be done?

Also, I want to monitor a text box using jQuery for keystrokes. When the third character is entered in the text box, I want to make an Ajax call to get all the fields from a db which matches those 3 starting characters and show them in a suggestion box.

Can anyone please tell me how these problems can be resolved?

Answer 1

have a look at the jquery ui docs – you’ll find “yearRange” under options

http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/

For the second question, also jquery ui:

http://jqueryui.com/demos/autocomplete/