jQuery UI DatePicker to show month year only

Question

I am using jQuery date picker to display the calendar all over my app. I want to know if I can use it to display the month and year (May 2010) and not the calendar?

Answer 1

for a monthpicker, using JQuery v 1.7.2, I have the following javascript which is doing just that

$l("[id$=txtDtPicker]").monthpicker({
showOn: "both",
buttonImage: "../../images/Calendar.png",
buttonImageOnly: true,
pattern: 'yyyymm', // Default is 'mm/yyyy' and separator char is not mandatory
monthNames: ['Jan', 'Fev', 'Mar', 'Abr', 'Mai', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Ago', 'Set', 'Out', 'Nov', 'Dez']
});

Answer 2

Use onSelect call back and remove the year portion manually and set the text in the field manually

Answer 3

I needed a Month/Year picker for two fields (From & To) and when one was chosen the Max/Min was set on the other one...a la picking airline ticket dates. I was having issues setting the max and min...the dates of the other field would get erased. Thanks to several of the above posts...I finally figured it out. You have to set options and dates in a very specific order.

See this fiddle for the full solution: Month/Year Picker @ JSFiddle

Code:

var searchMinDate = "-2y";
var searchMaxDate = "-1m";
if ((new Date()).getDate() <= 5) {
    searchMaxDate = "-2m";
}
$("#txtFrom").datepicker({
    dateFormat: "M yy",
    changeMonth: true,
    changeYear: true,
    showButtonPanel: true,
    showAnim: "",
    minDate: searchMinDate,
    maxDate: searchMaxDate,
    showButtonPanel: true,
    beforeShow: function (input, inst) {
        if ((datestr = $("#txtFrom").val()).length > 0) {
            var year = datestr.substring(datestr.length - 4, datestr.length);
            var month = jQuery.inArray(datestr.substring(0, datestr.length - 5), "#txtFrom").datepicker('option', 'monthNamesShort'));
        $("#txtFrom").datepicker('option', 'defaultDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
                $("#txtFrom").datepicker('setDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
            }
        },
        onClose: function (input, inst) {
            var month = $("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-month :selected").val();
            var year = $("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-year :selected").val();
            $("#txtFrom").datepicker('option', 'defaultDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
            $("#txtFrom").datepicker('setDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
            var to = $("#txtTo").val();
            $("#txtTo").datepicker('option', 'minDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
            if (to.length > 0) {
                var toyear = to.substring(to.length - 4, to.length);
                var tomonth = jQuery.inArray(to.substring(0, to.length - 5), $("#txtTo").datepicker('option', 'monthNamesShort'));
                $("#txtTo").datepicker('option', 'defaultDate', new Date(toyear, tomonth, 1));
                $("#txtTo").datepicker('setDate', new Date(toyear, tomonth, 1));
            }
        }
    });
    $("#txtTo").datepicker({
        dateFormat: "M yy",
        changeMonth: true,
        changeYear: true,
        showButtonPanel: true,
        showAnim: "",
        minDate: searchMinDate,
        maxDate: searchMaxDate,
        showButtonPanel: true,
        beforeShow: function (input, inst) {
            if ((datestr = $("#txtTo").val()).length > 0) {
                var year = datestr.substring(datestr.length - 4, datestr.length);
                var month = jQuery.inArray(datestr.substring(0, datestr.length - 5), $("#txtTo").datepicker('option', 'monthNamesShort'));
                $("#txtTo").datepicker('option', 'defaultDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
                $("#txtTo").datepicker('setDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
            }
        },
        onClose: function (input, inst) {
            var month = $("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-month :selected").val();
            var year = $("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-year :selected").val();
            $("#txtTo").datepicker('option', 'defaultDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
            $("#txtTo").datepicker('setDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
            var from = $("#txtFrom").val();
            $("#txtFrom").datepicker('option', 'maxDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
            if (from.length > 0) {
                var fryear = from.substring(from.length - 4, from.length);
                var frmonth = jQuery.inArray(from.substring(0, from.length - 5), $("#txtFrom").datepicker('option', 'monthNamesShort'));
                $("#txtFrom").datepicker('option', 'defaultDate', new Date(fryear, frmonth, 1));
                $("#txtFrom").datepicker('setDate', new Date(fryear, frmonth, 1));
            }

        }
    });

Also add this to a style block as mentioned above:

.ui-datepicker-calendar { display: none !important; }

Answer 4

I had the problem of date picker mixed with month picker. I solved it like that.

    $('.monthpicker').focus(function()
    {
    $(".ui-datepicker-calendar").show();
    }).datepicker( {
        changeMonth: true,
        changeYear: true,
        showButtonPanel: true,
        dateFormat: 'MM/yy',
        create: function (input, inst) { 

         },
        onClose: function(dateText, inst) { 
            var month = 1+parseInt($("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-month :selected").val());           
            var year = $("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-year :selected").val();

        }
    });

Answer 5

I liked the @user1857829 answer and his "extend-jquery-like-a-plugin approach". I just made a litte modification so that when you change month or year in any way the picker actually writes the date in the field. I found that I'd like that behaviour after using it a bit.

jQuery.fn.monthYearPicker = function(options) {
  options = $.extend({
    dateFormat: "mm/yy",
    changeMonth: true,
    changeYear: true,
    showButtonPanel: true,
    showAnim: "",
    onChangeMonthYear: writeSelectedDate
  }, options);
  function writeSelectedDate(year, month, inst ){
   var thisFormat = jQuery(this).datepicker("option", "dateFormat");
   var d = jQuery.datepicker.formatDate(thisFormat, new Date(year, month-1, 1));
   inst.input.val(d);
  }
  function hideDaysFromCalendar() {
    var thisCalendar = $(this);
    jQuery('.ui-datepicker-calendar').detach();
    // Also fix the click event on the Done button.
    jQuery('.ui-datepicker-close').unbind("click").click(function() {
      var month = $("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-month :selected").val();
      var year = $("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-year :selected").val();
      thisCalendar.datepicker('setDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
      thisCalendar.datepicker("hide");
    });
  }
  jQuery(this).datepicker(options).focus(hideDaysFromCalendar);
}

Answer 6

I had this same need today and found this on github, works with jQueryUI and has month picker in place of days in calendar

https://github.com/thebrowser/jquery.ui.monthpicker