jQuery Datepicker: Prevent closing picker when clicking a date

Question

Hi fellow stackoverflow:ers,

I\'m using the jQuery Datepicker plugin, together with Martin Milesich Timepicker plugin. Everything works great, except for the fact th

Answer 1

Following with what Emil suggested, I found a nicer and easier way to modify the widget to support a not closing widget on select event.

First, I added another property to the defaults dict on the widget:

closeOnSelect:true //True to close the widget when you select a date

Second, find this statement in the _selectDate method:

if (inst.inline)
        this._updateDatepicker(inst);
else {
        ...
    }

And change the condition to be like this:

var closeOnSelect = this._get(inst, "closeOnSelect");        
if (inst.inline || !closeOnSelect)
        this._updateDatepicker(inst);
else {
        ...
    }

Give it a try, it is working for me. I did it over the JQuery UI 1.8.5 version.