Jquery: DatePicker: start/end date

Question

i have looked around before posting my question

following what i am looking in my datepicker (start date and end date):

1) Start date: can b

Answer 1

<input type="text" id="tbStartDate" value="" disabled="disabled" />
<input type="text" id="tbEndDate" value="" disabled="disabled" />
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $("#tbStartDate").datepicker({        
            showOn: 'button',
            buttonImageOnly: true,
            buttonImage: '/Content/Calendar.png',
            buttonText: 'Click here (date)',
            onSelect: function (dateText, inst) {
                 var $endDate = $('#tbStartDate').datepicker('getDate');
                 $endDate.setDate($endDate.getDate() + 1);
                 $('#tbEndDate').datepicker('setDate', $endDate).datepicker("option", 'minDate', $endDate);
            },
            onClose: function (dateText, inst) {
                //$("#StartDate").val($("#tbStartDate").val());
            }
        });

        $("#tbEndDate").datepicker({
            dateFormat: 'dd-mm-yy',
            showOn: 'button',
            buttonImageOnly: true,
            buttonImage: '/Content/Calendar.png',
            buttonText: 'Click here (date)',
            onClose: function (dateText, inst) {
                //$("#EndDate").val($("#tbEndDate").val());
            }
        });

            var $endDate = $('#tbStartDate').datepicker('getDate');
            $endDate.setDate($endDate.getDate() + 1);
            $('#tbEndDate').datepicker('setDate', $endDate).datepicker("option", 'minDate', $endDate);
    });
</script>

Answer 2

I answered a similar question for a friend. He needed a cascading date similar, but I think you can see how to solve the issue if you look at my markup.

HTML

  <form target="_self" action="ClearForm.aspx">

Clear Form

• Start Date:
• End Date:
• Clear

JS

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {

  $('#endDate').datepicker({ showOn: 'button',
      buttonImage: '../images/Calendar.png',
      buttonImageOnly: true, onSelect: function () { },
      onClose: function () { $(this).focus(); }
    });


  $('#startDate').datepicker({ showOn: 'button',
      buttonImage: '../images/Calendar.png',
      buttonImageOnly: true, onSelect:
        function (dateText, inst) {
          $('#endDate').datepicker("option", 'minDate', new Date(dateText));
        }
      ,
      onClose: function () { $(this).focus(); }
    });


});             

Answer 3

I prefer to write a default configuration for the datepicker using a class so that it works with more than one with less duplicates.

onSelect: function(dateText, inst){
    // Check if _until exists and auto set mindate
    if(inst.id.contains("_from")){
        $("#"+inst.id.replace("_from", "_until")).datepicker("option", "minDate", dateText);
    }
}

This works assuming your form IDs are consistent. E.g I use date_until and date_from