Jquery date picker z-index issue

Question

I have a slideshow div, and I have a datepicker field above that div.

When I click in the datepicker field, the datepicker panel show behind slideshow div.

Answer 1

I have a dialog box that uses the datepicker on it. It was always hidden. When I adjusted the z-index, the field on the lower form always showed up on the dialog.

I used a combination of solutions that I saw to resolve the issue.

$('.ui-datepicker', $form).datepicker({
                showButtonPanel: true,
                changeMonth: true,
                changeYear: true,
                dateFormat: "yy-M-dd",
                beforeShow: function (input) {
                    $(input).css({
                        "position": "relative",
                        "z-index": 999999
                    });
                },
                onClose: function () { $('.ui-datepicker').css({ 'z-index': 0  } ); }                    
            });

The before show ensures that datepicker always is on top when selected, but the onClose ensures that the z-index of the field gets reset so that it doesn't overlap on any dialogs opened later with a different datepicker.