jQuery datepicker, disable month selection

Question

Hi i'm sure there must be an easy way to do this but can't find the option to set it anywhere.

I am trying disable the left/right buttons that allow the user to change months. I've removed the drop down list of months but can't get rid of the buttons.

    $("#date").datepicker({
    changeMonth: false,
    changeYear: false,
    dateFormat: 'dd/mm/yy',
    duration: 'fast'
});

Answer 1

You can effectively disable them using stepMonths by making them go nowhere when clicked, like this:

$("#date").datepicker({
  changeMonth: false,
  changeYear: false,
  dateFormat: 'dd/mm/yy',
  duration: 'fast',
  stepMonths: 0
});

You can give it a try here

Or, you could remove the buttons like this:

$("#date").datepicker({
  changeMonth: false,
  changeYear: false,
  dateFormat: 'dd/mm/yy',
  duration: 'fast'
}).focus(function() {
  $(".ui-datepicker-prev, .ui-datepicker-next").remove();
});​

You can give that a try here, this works because the default showOn option is focus, if you're using a different event, just bind to that after the .datepicker() call (so its event runs first, you can't hide what isn't created yet).

Answer 2

I don't know how to do it directly in jQuery (or if it's possible).

But if you can't find a way to do it in there, you could always just hide the buttons in css.

The css selectors you want are (from memory so you might need to check)

.ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-prev, 
.ui-datepicker .ui-datepicker-next
{
    display:none;
}