jQuery Date picker not moving with page scroll

Question

I am using the standard jQuery UI datepicker ,However when i scroll the page the date picker remains fixed . Any ideas how to solve this ?

http://jsfiddle.net/jbK6a/3/

Regards, Neil

Answer 1

To solve this problem in jQuery UI 1.11.4 I added a .bind() event to the end of the datepicker instantiation:

$("*selector*").datepicker({
  *settings*
}).bind('click',function () {
  $("#ui-datepicker-div").appendTo("*other-selector*");
});

In my case, the "other-selector" was $(this).closest('the-date-input-parent'). This picks up the single #ui-datepicker-div box (which jQuery UI places at the end of the DOM) and moves it to a location somewhere else within the document. This can be done for multiple datepickers on the same page.

The other-selector should have position: relative; set so that the absolutely positioned #ui-datepicker-div becomes positioned relative to the new parent. Once so, it scrolls just fine.

This solution was the easiest fix to this problem (though it took a lot of time and searching to come to this conclusion) and allowed the datepicker to work correctly on mobile devices and tablets where it would otherwise be unusable.

Answer 2

With a little fiddling I managed to get the following:

http://jsfiddle.net/jbK6a/12/

Using this, the datepicker hides itself on page scroll. I believe there are jQuery methods to ascertain the scroll position and so with a bit more fiddling, you could then manually manipulate the datepicker and update its position based on this value...

UPDATE: Just fiddled a bit and got: http://jsfiddle.net/jbK6a/18/ which scrolls the datepicker, but it's really messy, any number of things can break it especially other collapsible elements. Fortunately Sem has a far better and cleaner solution :)

(Thought I'd add my code anyway though)