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jQuery: having trouble specifying minDate and maxDate for a datePicker

Answer 1

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Matt Ball 2010-09-01 13:55:11

I think you're writing an answer for the jQuery UI datepicker...this is a different plugin :)

Nick Craver 2010-09-01 13:59:33

@Nick: Blargh. You're right. I was wondering why this wasn't working in jsfiddle...

Matt Ball 2010-09-01 14:01:52

The plugin in question is: http://www.kelvinluck.com/assets/jquery/datePicker/v2/demo/

danielgwood 2010-09-01 14:03:53

@Nick @Bears: I'm trying above and still not working. I'm confused by your comment Nick - am I not using jQuery UI datepicker? I meant so, I'm RTFM, http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Datepicker, thanks!

Ariel 2010-09-01 14:08:41

@danielgwood: Oh, I see now. I may be pointing out to a different date picker... let me clean this up. Thanks everyone.

Ariel 2010-09-01 14:10:16

Answer 2

A:

I think you need to use startDate and endDate instead:

$('.date-pick').datePicker({ startDate: '-2D', endDate: '+2D' }).val(new Date().asString()).trigger('change');

That is, assuming you are using the plugin described here: kevinluck.com. This works for me on my local test. I assume you are using this plugin due to the similarity to the examples on Kevin's site.

danielgwood 2010-09-01 14:07:55

Answer 3

+1 A:

The options are different for your current plugin, startDate and endDate and they must be strings, like this:

$(function () {
  $('.date-pick').datePicker({ 
     startDate : new Date().addDays(-7).asString(), 
     endDate: new Date().addDays(7).asString()
  }).val(new Date().asString()).trigger('change');
});

You can give it a try here. The documentation you seemed to have pulled from is for a different plugin, the jQuery UI Datepicker found here.

Nick Craver 2010-09-01 14:08:11

@Nick, that's the case. I'm cleaning this up... Thanks!

Ariel 2010-09-01 14:16:23

It doesn't look like the `startDate` and `endDate` take that format. Check out your demo again - the datepicker's looking at 1900, not 2010.

Matt Ball 2010-09-01 14:17:22

@Bears: yes, noticed that. Also noticed that even after choosing a date it doesn't show up in the text control. But anyway, I appreciate to be pointed out about my confussion of using different controls, I'll figure these out later. Thanks both!

Ariel 2010-09-01 14:20:54

@Ariel - @Bears make a good catch, check out the updated version, it points to the correct dates.

Nick Craver 2010-09-01 14:21:53

What browser/framework gives you `addDays()`? It's definitely not standard.

Matt Ball 2010-09-01 14:25:46

@Bears - It's in the `date.js` he's including, a prerequisite for `.datePicker()`, you can view it here: http://github.com/vitch/jquery-methods/raw/master/date.js

Nick Craver 2010-09-01 14:44:27

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