How to display jquery datepicker on link click?

Question

I need to show jQuery UI datepicker on link click, also when a date is picked change link text to this date, how can I do it?

Answer 1

jQuery UI date picker should do the job.

Check out the example using an icon to trigger the picker: http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/#icon-trigger

You can also call the show() method to drop down the picker whenever you need to, e.g...

$('#mypicker').datepicker({
      //options
      minDate: '20.04.2012'
      //...
    });
$('#mylink').click(function(){
      $('#mypicker').datepicker('show');
    });

To change the link text after a date is selected, use something like this in initialization code:

$('#mypicker').datepicker({ onSelect:
    function(dateText, inst) {
        $('#mylink').text(dateText);
    }
});

Answer 2

$("#dateField").datepicker({
 dateFormat:'dd/M/yy',
 minDate: 'now',
 changeMonth:true,
 changeYear:true,
 showOn: "focus",
 //buttonImage: "YourImage",
 buttonImageOnly: true, 
 yearRange: "-100:+0",  
}); 

$("dateField").datepicker( "option", "disabled", true );