getDate with Jquery Datepicker
i am trying to get date from my implementation of jquery date picker, add it to a string and display the resulting image in my div. Something however is just not working. Can anyone check out the code and have a look at it?
The code is supposed to take the date from date picker, combine it in a string which is to have the necessary code to display tag, images are located in /image and in the format aYY-MM-DD.png, new to this date picker and can't quite get it down yet.
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link type="text/css" href="css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.8.custom.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-ui-1.8.custom.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
// Datepicker
$('#datepicker').datepicker({
dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',
inline: true,
minDate: new Date(2010, 1 - 1, 1),
maxDate:new Date(2010, 12 - 1, 31),
altField: '#datepicker_value',
});
//hover states on the static widgets
$('#dialog_link, ul#icons li').hover(
function() { $(this).addClass('ui-state-hover'); },
function() { $(this).removeClass('ui-state-hover'); }
);
});
//var img_date = .datepicker('getDate');
var day1 = $("#datepicker").datepicker('getDate').getDate();
var month1 = $("#datepicker").datepicker('getDate').getMonth() + 1;
var year1 = $("#datepicker").datepicker('getDate').getFullYear();
var fullDate = year1 + "-" + month1 + "-" + day1;
var str_output = "<h1><center><img src=\"/images/a" + fullDate + ".png\"></center></h1><br/><br>";
page_output.innerHTML = str_output;
// writing the results to the div element (page_out)
</script>
</head>
<body style="background-color:#000;color:#fff;margin: auto auto;">
<!-- Datepicker -->
<div id="datepicker"></div>
<!-- Highlight / Error -->
<p>Date Value: <input type="text" id="datepicker_value" /></p>
<div id="page_output" style="text-align:center; margin-top:80px; margin-bottom:20px; "></div>
</body>
Answer
I think you would want to add an 'onSelect' event handler to the initialization of your datepicker so your code gets triggered when the user selects a date. Try it out on jsFiddle
$(document).ready(function(){
// Datepicker
$('#datepicker').datepicker({
dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',
inline: true,
minDate: new Date(2010, 1 - 1, 1),
maxDate:new Date(2010, 12 - 1, 31),
altField: '#datepicker_value',
onSelect: function(){
var day1 = $("#datepicker").datepicker('getDate').getDate();
var month1 = $("#datepicker").datepicker('getDate').getMonth() + 1;
var year1 = $("#datepicker").datepicker('getDate').getFullYear();
var fullDate = year1 + "-" + month1 + "-" + day1;
var str_output = "<h1><center><img src=\"/images/a" + fullDate +".png\"></center></h1><br/><br>";
$('#page_output').html(str_output);
}
});
});