Div click same as radio button?

Question

Is there a way to have a click event on a div act the same as a radio button in a form environment? I just want the below div's to submit the value, the radio buttons are ugly

The code gets outputted like this:

<input id="radio-2011-06-08" value="2011-06-08" type="radio" name="radio_date">8</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-09" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-09" value="2011-06-09" type="radio" name="radio_date">9</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-10" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-10" value="2011-06-10" type="radio" name="radio_date">10</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-11" class=" end "><input id="radio-2011-06-11" value="2011-06-11" type="radio" name="radio_date">11</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-12" class=" start "><input id="radio-2011-06-12" value="2011-06-12" type="radio" name="radio_date">12</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-13" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-13" value="2011-06-13" type="radio" name="radio_date">13</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-14" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-14" value="2011-06-14" type="radio" name="radio_date">14</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-15" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-15" value="2011-06-15" type="radio" name="radio_date">15</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-16" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-16" value="2011-06-16" type="radio" name="radio_date">16</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-17" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-17" value="2011-06-17" type="radio" name="radio_date">17</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-18" class=" end "><input id="radio-2011-06-18" value="2011-06-18" type="radio" name="radio_date">18</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-19" class=" start "><input id="radio-2011-06-19" value="2011-06-19" type="radio" name="radio_date">19</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-20" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-20" value="2011-06-20" type="radio" name="radio_date">20</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-21" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-21" value="2011-06-21" type="radio" name="radio_date">21</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-22" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-22" value="2011-06-22" type="radio" name="radio_date">22</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-23" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-23" value="2011-06-23" type="radio" name="radio_date">23</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-24" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-24" value="2011-06-24" type="radio" name="radio_date">24</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-25" class=" end "><input id="radio-2011-06-25" value="2011-06-25" type="radio" name="radio_date">25</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-26" class=" start "><input id="radio-2011-06-26" value="2011-06-26" type="radio" name="radio_date">26</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-27" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-27" value="2011-06-27" type="radio" name="radio_date">27</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-28" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-28" value="2011-06-28" type="radio" name="radio_date">28</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-29" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-29" value="2011-06-29" type="radio" name="radio_date">29</input></li><li id="li-2011-06-30" class=" "><input id="radio-2011-06-30" value="2011-06-30" type="radio" name="radio_date">30</input></li><li id="li-" class=" inactive"></li><li id="li-" class=" end inactive"></li></ul><div class="clear"></div></div>    

Answer 1

This can be done without an Javascript at all but you'd have to ditch the div.

You can use a <label> tag instead of a <div> and hide the radio button with CSS.

For example:

<input type="radio" id="foo" /><label for="foo">Bar</label>

And in CSS:

input[type=radio] {
   display:none;
}

Note that a <label> tag is inline by default and a <div> is block level element so you may need to move around your CSS a bit.

Answer 2

You could hide the radio buttons, and if a div is clicked, trigger a click event on the hidden radio button. Of course you would need to handle displaying which date is selected yourself.

I prepared a small demo: http://jsfiddle.net/roberkules/4xK86/