Question

I have a input field and on clicking that I will show a date picker to select the date. I would like to always make this field select using from that picker and not by typing. the reason is, i am just modifying this one field and don’t want to touch the whole code to validate this field. i have given enough drop down options for the users to select from the drop down so i prefer to accept input using this selection and not by typing. if i allow typing , there are chances that users can change the year to a past year and that overrides everything.

regards

Answer 1

you could try using a button for the datepicker and on selection of a date set a hidden field and a visible label.

Look at some of the examples in and around this:

http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/#icon-trigger