Question

I need to create a jQuery ui datepicker that will let users choose a start week of the year, and an ending week of the year. IE: Always Sunday – Saturday. Is this possible?

Answer 1

DatePicker can restrict a user’s selection, but only as far as restricting the user between two dates (minDate and maxDate options). As far as I’m aware, there’s no built in functionality that can restrict selection to only Sundays or Saturdays.

DatePicker does however have a means of calculating the week of a user’s selection with the following snippet of code:

$.datepicker.iso8601Week(new Date(dateText))

You can see how this could be utilised in the following jsFiddle (read below, first).

The only problem with this is that the ISO-week always starts with a Monday. So even though in the demo above I have set Sunday to be the first day of the week, if you try selecting the date Wed 7th March 2012 you’ll see in the datapicker it shows as week 9, where the ISO-week will return 10. I left it in on purpose to show you this pitfall.

Although this doesn’t provide a direct solution to your problem, hopefully it’ll help in determining if you should use DatePicker at all to produce your desired functionality.

edit

Actually, just found this question which might be of use to you, looks like it’s possible : Can the jQuery UI Datepicker be made to disable Saturdays and Sundays (and holidays)?