Month: September 2009

Following last week’s implementation of the basic shape of the calendar, this week we will add behaviours so that we can pick a date on it.

This post is part of a series of three posts:

• In part 1 we created a jQuery plugin which displays a simple static calendar.
• In part 2 (this post), we will add the facility to pick a date, and to switch the month on display.
• In part 3, we will add some sanity checks, and the ability to display events on given days. Continue reading “Revisiting the JavaScript Calendar Control – Part 2”

A few years ago, I wrote a calendar control for a Code Project article. Although I’ve used it myself several times, and despite the fact that people still appear to be using it, I can’t help but cringe every time I look at it again. Every time, the thought that comes to mind is “It could have been so much cleaner in jQuery…”.

Well, the time has come to bite the bullet and see how it can be pulled off again. Rather than going over the whole thing in one go though, we’re going to take it in steps over a number of posts to implement a feature or a group of features, so we can look each in slightly more detail. This is as much for my benefit as everyone else’s. If anyone spots anything weird, inefficient, or badong in these posts, please let me know. I like to think of this as public code review, so, you know. Bring it on.

We can rebuild him – we have the technology

The posts will be divided as follows:

• In part 1 (this post), we will deal with the display of a simple static calendar.
• In part 2, we will add the facility to pick a date, and to switch the month on display.
• In part 3, we will add some sanity checks, and the ability to display events on given days.

And with that, on to the post itself. Continue reading “Revisiting the JavaScript Calendar Control – Part 1”