Question

I’m working with the jqueryui datepicker on this page – http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/

How do I call it on a label instead of an input field? Is this possible?

Answer 1

I haven’t looked at the code but I suspect that it assumes that it’s attached to a <input type="text"> element.

So assume that you must have that element.

You can hide the <input> and interact with the datepicker via calls to its methods from your label events.

$(labelselector).click(function() {
    $(inputselector).datepicker('show');
});