jQuery UI DatePicker to show month year only
I am using jQuery date picker to display the calendar all over my app. I want to know if I can use it to display the month and year (May 2010) and not the calendar?
Answer
Here's a hack (updated with entire .html file):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$('.date-picker').datepicker( {
changeMonth: true,
changeYear: true,
showButtonPanel: true,
dateFormat: 'MM yy',
onClose: function(dateText, inst) {
$(this).datepicker('setDate', new Date(inst.selectedYear, inst.selectedMonth, 1));
}
});
});
</script>
<style>
.ui-datepicker-calendar {
display: none;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<label for="startDate">Date :</label>
<input name="startDate" id="startDate" class="date-picker" />
</body>
</html>
EDIT jsfiddle for the above example: http://jsfiddle.net/DBpJe/7755/
EDIT 2 Adds the month year value to input box only on clicking of Done button. Also allows to delete input box values, which isn't possible in above field http://jsfiddle.net/DBpJe/5103/
EDIT 3
updated Better Solution based on rexwolf's solution down.
http://jsfiddle.net/DBpJe/5106