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It is even more easy to replace the APEX with the jQuery calendar...

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In a previous post I described how to replace the default APEX calendar with a better looking jQuery calendar. But one of the steps is that the "Display as" and "HTML Form Element Attributes" needed to be changed. But using jQuery more extensively that isn't even necessary. When you put the following code in an HTML Region on Page 0 (assuming you already included the jQuery stuff), all existing APEX calendar items are automagically 'converted' to jQuery calendar items. (No guarantee though: I didn't test it on all sorts of pages, may be dependent on your template). Look here for a live demo...

$(function(){
 // Remove original Datepicker
 $("td.datepicker + td" ).remove();
 // Add jQuery Datepicker to all Datepicker input fields that are not hidden
 $("td.datepicker > input[type!=hidden]" ).datepicker(
   { dateFormat      : 'dd/mm/yy'
   , closeText       : 'X'
   , clearText       : ''
   , showOn          : 'button'
   , buttonImage     : '#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#calendar.gif'
   , buttonImageOnly : true
   });
});
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Patrick Wolf said…
Hi Roel,

is there a reason why you are using "each" instead of just using

$("td.datepicker > input[type!=hidden]" ).datepicker

Because that also seems to work and is a little bit shorter and easier to read.

Greetings
Patrick
5:03 pm
Patrick Wolf said…
Or you can even use a more compact version which uses the jQuery chaining:

$("td.datepicker")
.next("td")
.remove()
.end()
.children("input[type!=hidden]")
.datepicker(
{ dateFormat : 'dd/mm/yy'
, closeText : 'X'
, clearText : ''
, showAnim : 'scale'
, showOptions : { origin: ['top', 'left'] }
, showOn : 'button'
, buttonImage : '#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#calendar.gif'
, buttonImageOnly : true
});

Too bad that the comment function doesn't allow a PRE tag to format the code. If you use chaining, indenting the code is very important so that you see the structure and which result set is used.

Greetings
Patrick
5:06 pm
Louis-Guillaume said…
Roel, thanks for the idea.
Patrick, thanks for the more compact syntax.
5:55 pm
Roel said…
Thanks Patrick & Louis-Guillaume.
So the code gets shorter every time....
9:16 am
Tim Ward said…
I'm doing the following to replace datepickers in apex 3.2 with the JQuery Datepickers, but my only problem is the images doesn't display next to the field.. Any ideas why that would happen?

"<"link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="#IMAGE_PREFIX#jquery/css/redmond/jquery-ui-1.8.4.custom.css" /">"

"<"script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#jQuery/js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"">""<"/script">"

"<"script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#jQuery/js/jquery-ui-1.8.4.custom.min.js"">""<"/script">"

"<"script type="text/javascript"">"
$(document).ready(function () {
$(".datepicker ">" input[id]").datepicker();

$.datepicker.setDefaults({
dateFormat: 'dd-M-yy',
changeMonth: true,
changeYear: true,
closeText: 'Done',
showButtonPanel: true,
duration: 'slow',
prevText: 'Previous',
showOtherMonths: true,
selectOtherMonths: true,
dayNamesShort: ['Sun','Mon','Tue','Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat'],
dayNamesMin: ['Sun','Mon','Tue','Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat'],
constrainInput: true,
showOn: 'both',
buttonImage: '#IMAGE_PREFIX#asfdcldr.gif',
buttonImageOnly: true,
buttonText: 'Calendar',
autoSize: true
});

});

$(function(){
// Remove Original Date Picker //
$("td.datepicker + td").remove();

// Add jQuery DatePicker to all DatePicker input fields not hidden //
$("td.datepicker ">" input[type!=hidden]").datepicker();
});

$(document).ready(function(){
$(".datepickernew").datepicker();
});
"<"/script">"
4:19 pm
Roel said…
Tim, where do they display? Can you set up an example on apex.oracle.com?
4:34 pm
Tim Ward said…
Guess I should have said that they don't display at all...

I'll try to do something at apex.oracle.com, but don't they use 4.0 now?
6:54 pm
Tim Ward said…
Seems to work fine on Apex 4.0....

Just weird that using the code I showed that the calendar image won't show up on the internal replaced date pickers...

The image shows up if I create a Text Item with class="datepickernew" in the HTML Form Element Attributes of the page.
1:01 pm
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