Question

I’m looking for a way of highlighting the days in between the date range of 2 inputs on mouse over.

This example is nearly doing what I want to achieve:
http://hackingon.net/files/jquery_datepicker/range.htm

Only difference is that the highlighting of the selected range should happen on two separate datepickers and on mouse over.

Any suggestions?

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Update:

Ok, a bit more details:

After selecting a date from the first datepicker, the second datepicker should highlight the previous selected date. If you then mouse over a day past the previous selected day, all days in between should highlight by adding a class.

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Update:
This is how far I got:

    $("#input-service_date_leave, #input-service_date_return").datepicker({
        rangeSelect: true,
        beforeShow: customRange,
        onSelect: customRange,
    });

    function customRange(input) {
        if (input.id == "input-service_date_leave") {

            $("#ui-datepicker-div td").die();

            if (selectedDate != null) { 
                $('#input-service_date_return').datepicker('option', 'minDate', selectedDate).datepicker('refresh');
            }
        }
        if (input.id == "input-service_date_return") {

            $("#ui-datepicker-div td").live({
                mouseenter: function() {
                    $(this).prevAll("td:not(.ui-datepicker-unselectable)").addClass("highlight");
                },
                mouseleave: function() {
                    $("#ui-datepicker-div td").removeClass("highlight");
                }
            });

            var selectedDate = $("#input-service_date_leave").datepicker("getDate");                
            if (selectedDate != null) { 
                $('#input-service_date_return').datepicker('option', 'minDate', selectedDate).datepicker('refresh');
            }
        }
    }

http://jsfiddle.net/mayko/WbWg3/1/

Only problem, the live event just highlights the td’s of the current hovered row, but not the td’s of the rows before.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I added a bit to your script. Worked like a charm on JSFiddle. Take a look and let me know.

    $("#input-service_date_leave, #input-service_date_return").datepicker({
        rangeSelect: true,
        beforeShow: customRange,
        onSelect: customRange,
    });

    function customRange(input) {
        if (input.id == "input-service_date_leave") {

            $("#ui-datepicker-div td").die();

            if (selectedDate != null) {
                $('#input-service_date_return').datepicker('option', 'minDate', selectedDate).datepicker('refresh');
            }
        }
        if (input.id == "input-service_date_return") {

            $("#ui-datepicker-div td").live({
                mouseenter: function() {
                    $(this).parent().addClass("finalRow");
                    $(".finalRow").prevAll().find("td:not(.ui-datepicker-unselectable)").addClass("highlight");
                    $(this).prevAll("td:not(.ui-datepicker-unselectable)").addClass("highlight");
               },
                mouseleave: function() {
                    $(this).parent().removeClass("finalRow");
                    $("#ui-datepicker-div td").removeClass("highlight");
                }
            });

            var selectedDate = $("#input-service_date_leave").datepicker("getDate");                
            if (selectedDate != null) {
                $('#input-service_date_return').datepicker('option', 'minDate', selectedDate).datepicker('refresh');
            }
        }
    }