Can the jQuery UI Datepicker be made to disable Saturdays and Sundays (and holidays)?

Question

I use a datepicker for choosing an appointment day. I already set the date range to be only for the next month. That works fine. I want to exclude Saturdays and Sundays f

Answer 1

The datepicker has this functionality built in!

$( "#datepicker" ).datepicker({
  beforeShowDay: $.datepicker.noWeekends
});

http://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/#utility-noWeekends