I am using struts2 jquery plugin s datepicker as below
<sj:datepicker id="frdate" name="training.fromDate"
label="From Date (dd-mm-yyyy)" maxDate="0" />
I want to hide this on certain coditions.I have written a jquery like this.
$("#frdate").hide(); //this will hide textbox of datepicker
$("label[for='frdate']").hide(); // this will hide label of datepicker
But datepicker button still showing? How to hide it using jquery?
The generated html code is:
<tr>
<td class="tdLabel">
<label for="frdate" class="label">From Date (dd-mm-yyyy):</label></td>
<td><input type="text" name="training.fromDate" value="" id="frdate"/></td>
</tr>
<script type='text/javascript'>
jQuery(document).ready(function () {
jQuery.struts2_jquery_ui.initDatepicker(false);
});
jQuery(document).ready(function () {
var options_frdate = {};
options_frdate.showOn = "both";
options_frdate.buttonImage = "/ONLINE/struts/js/calendar.gif";
options_frdate.maxDate = "0";
options_frdate.jqueryaction = "datepicker";
options_frdate.id = "frdate";
options_frdate.name = "training.fromDate";
jQuery.struts2_jquery_ui.bind(jQuery('#frdate'),options_frdate);
});
</script>
To hide a datepicker you need to
To show a datepicker you need to
Here is the demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ezKwN/
function hideIt(){
$( "#frdate" ).datepicker( "destroy" );
$( "#frdate" ).hide();
}
function showIt(){
$( "#frdate" ).show();
$( "#frdate" ).datepicker();
}
I don't know if this works for Struts2 jQuery datepicker too, but i hope so.
But consider that using that tag, you are hard-coding that funcionality to the page, it is not supposed to be dynamic, then (if the above solution doesn't work), if you need to show / hide it according to user interactions, you should consider using the native jQuery datepicker instead of the Struts2 one (only for the dynamic datepicker)
EDIT: as another option (with an smaller impact than recoding all your datepickers with native jQuery), you can simply encapsulate the tag inside a <div>
, and hide / show the div.