Dynamic event template in FullCalendar

Question

Is there any way to dynamically change event template in FullCalendar?

Update. What I want is to specify new event html (e. g. in eventRender callback) and make FullCalendar to use it for my event rendering. Something like this:

eventRender: function(event, element, view) {
  var template = '<div class="customEvent"></div>';
  return $.parse(template);
}

Tried the sample above - didn't work.

Answer 1

You can add meta information on the event, like classes, and style accordingly:

events: [{
    title: 'Blue Event',
    start: '2014-06-01',
    description: 'Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum',
    class: 'blue main'
}]

And the CSS:

.fc-event.blue {}
.fc-event.main {}

On eventRender insert the classes with

eventRender: function (event, element) {
    element.addClass(event.class)
}

And append more content like:

if (event.description) {
    element.find('.fc-event-inner')
        .append("<div class='desc'>" + event.description + "</div>");
}

$(document).ready(function () {
    $('#calendar').fullCalendar({
        header: { left: '', center: '', right: '' },
        defaultDate: '2014-06-12',
        eventRender: function (event, element) {
            if (event.description) {
                element.find('.fc-event-inner')
                    .append("<div class='desc'>" + event.description) + "</div>";
            }               
            element.addClass(event.class)
        },
        events: [{
            title: 'Blue Event',
            start: '2014-06-01',
            description: 'Lorem ipsum lorem ipsum',
            class: 'blue main'
        }, {
            title: 'More Blue',
            start: '2014-06-01',
            description: 'More lorem ipsum',
            class: 'blue main'
        }, {
            title: 'Long Event',
            start: '2014-06-07',
            end: '2014-06-10',
            class: 'red main'
        }, {
            title: 'Meeting',
            start: '2014-06-12T10:30:00',
            end: '2014-06-12T12:30:00',
            class: 'blue main'
        }, {
            title: 'Lunch',
            start: '2014-06-12T12:00:00',
            class: 'blue main'
        }, {
            title: 'Birthday Party',
            start: '2014-06-13T07:00:00',
            class: 'red main'
        }, ],
    });
});

body {
    background-color: #eaefb5;
    font-family: sans-serif;
}
.fc-event-time, .fc-event-title {
    padding: 0 1px;
    float: left;
    clear: none;
    margin-right: 10px;
}
.fc-event.main {
    border: 5px solid #bbb;
    margin: 5px;
    padding: 3px
}
.fc-event.red {
    background-color: #f85032;
}
.fc-event.red .fc-event-title {
    font-family: Tahoma;
    font-size: 1.2em
}
.fc-event.blue {
    background: #87e0fd;
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #87e0fd 0%, #53cbf1 40%, #05abe0 100%);
    background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, #87e0fd), color-stop(40%, #53cbf1), color-stop(100%, #05abe0));
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #87e0fd 0%, #53cbf1 40%, #05abe0 100%);
    background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #87e0fd 0%, #53cbf1 40%, #05abe0 100%);
    background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #87e0fd 0%, #53cbf1 40%, #05abe0 100%);
    background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #87e0fd 0%, #53cbf1 40%, #05abe0 100%);
    filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#87e0fd', endColorstr='#05abe0', GradientType=0);
}
.fc-event.blue .fc-event-title {
    font-size: 2em;
    color: #EEE;
    text-shadow: 2px 2px 4px #300000;
}
.fc-event.blue .desc {
    font-size:.8em;
    float:left;
    clear:both;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fullcalendar/2.0.3/fullcalendar.css">
<script type='text/javascript' src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.7.0/moment.min.js"></script>
<script type='text/javascript' src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fullcalendar/2.0.3/fullcalendar.min.js"></script>

<div id="calendar"></div>