Question

I’m trying to incorporate jqueryUI’s datepicker inside a partialview like this:

  <% using (Ajax.BeginForm("/EditData", 
                            new AjaxOptions { HttpMethod = "POST", 
                                             UpdateTargetId = "div1"   }))
  {%>
    Date: 
   <%= Html.TextBox("date", String.Format("{0:g}", Model.date), new { id = "datePicker"})%>
   <% } %>

        <script type="text/javascript">

        $(function() {
            $("#datePicker").datepicker();
        });
        </script>

When I directly call the url to this partial view, so it renders only this view the datepicker works perfectly. (For the purpose of testing this I added the needed jquery and jqueryui script and css references directly to the partial view)

But if I use a Ajax.Actionlink to load this partial view inside a div (called div2, submitting the above form should update div1) like this:

<div id="div1">
    <%= Ajax.ActionLink("Edit", "/EditData", new { id = Model.id }, new AjaxOptions { HttpMethod = "GET", UpdateTargetId = "div2" } )%>                  

</div>
<div2>placeholder for the form</div>

The datepicker won’t appear anymore.
My best guess is the javascript included in the loaded html doesn’t get executed,

($(document).ready(function() {
        $("#datepicker").datepicker();
    }); doesnt work either

If that’s the case how and where should I call the $("datepicker").datepicker(); ?
(putting it in the ajaxoptions of the ajax.actionlink as oncomplete = "$(function() {
$('#datepicker').datepicker();});" still doesnt work.

If that’s not the case, then where’s my problem?

Answer 1

I don’t know why that does not work, but you could skip using the Ajax.ActionLink and instead use JQuery on itself to do this task, i.e.:

<div id="div1">
    <%= Html.ActionLink("Edit", "/EditData", new { id = Model.id } )%>                  
</div>
<div2>placeholder for the form</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
        $("#div1 a").click(function() {
            $.get(
                $(this).attr("href"),
                null,
                function (data) { 
                    $("#div2").html(data); 
                    $("#datepicker").datepicker();
                });
            return false; // to prevent link
        });
    });
</script>