Always visible jQuery UI DatePicker

Question

How can I use jQuery UI to display an always-visible datepicker widget?

Answer 1

 .ui-datepicker {
z-index: 1000;
 width: 17em;
width:500px;
padding: .2em .2em 0;
display: none;
position: absolute;
padding: 100px 20px;
top: 100px;
left: 50%;
margin-top: -100px;
 } 

i have overrided the style to the above one and now it works better

Answer 2

It's simple. Keep your jQuery code, but assign it to a <div> instead of an input box.

Date:
<div id="datepicker"></div>

<script>
    $(function() {
        $("#datepicker").datepicker();
    });
</script>

A functional example lives at the jQuery UI webpage for the datepicker widget, and I've also included one below.

$(function() {
  $("#datepicker").datepicker();
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>

<div id="datepicker"></div>

Answer 3

From the documentation:

Simply call .datepicker() on a div instead of an input.

(To display the datepicker embedded in the page instead of in an overlay.)