angular-datepicker-light-zz (enhanced over angular-datepicker-light)

AngularJS datepicker plugin

bower install angular-datepicker-light-zz

Also available as a ruby gem through rails assets:

https://rails-assets.org/#/components/angular-datepicker-light-zz (Give this site some time to load version and dependency data)

Intention

Just to add features i needed and solve all visible errors in the great light-weight parent library. Turns out the changes are huge and the parent library might not accept it. So, decided to keep this one as a separate library. So, it can be used by anyone who needs these functionalities and same errors are also annoying them.

Usage:

Use above mentioned bower package, or ruby gem, add css and js dependencies of angular-datepicker-light-zz in your application.js and application.css with require angular-datepicker-light-zz , rest of the usage is same as parent library, :

<input type="text" 
       ng-model="vm.date"
       angular-datepicker-light="vm.datepickerOptions" />
<span id="calendarIcon"></span>

Below is the demo of angular-datepicker-light-zz with following configuration:

vm.datepickerOptions = {
  inline: false,
  datepickerClickMargin: 0,
  showOtherMonthDates: true,
  useAngularUiSelect: true,
  dateFormat: "MMMM D, YYYY",
  hideTodayDate: true,
  prevYers: 80,
  nextYears: 10,
  toggleTarget: '#calendarIcon'
}

Customizations (v 1.2.5+)

This plugin is heavily customized for our needs. But keeping in mind that this remains re-usable. If it's pull request gets accepted i might delete this repo, otherwise this repo/plugin will remain use-full.

Customizations summary:

• Change positioning logic for non-inline usage(to solve problme in our complex view where previous logic was failing)
• Prevent calender pop-up from being closed when a month or year is select from drop-down, to let users select full date in one go.
• Month names changed from all caps to initial caps.
• Add support for ui-select drop-down to facilitate projects using ui-select as standard drop-down.
  (Below is screenshot when useAngularUiSelect is enabled)
  
• nextYeras, prevYears, hideTodayDate, useAngularUiSelect, toggleTarget, setCurrentDateWhenEmpty(and other) options added(see below for details).
• CSS enhancements/adjustments.
• Other minor fixes.

Updates details:

• ####useAngularUiSelect: (New)

  Default: false
  Description: Specifies if ui-select should be used for drop-downs. Note that we assume if this is true, than ui-select is already included in project.

• ####hideTodayDate: (New)

  Default: false
  Description: If true, hides bottom panel(containing today's date) from calender display.

• ####prevYers: (New)

  Default: 5
  Description: Sets number of previous years(from current year) to display in year drop-down. NOTE if minDate is defined, this will be ignored in minDate's favor.

• ####nextYears: (New)

  Default: 5
  Description: Sets number of next years(from current year) to display in year drop-down. NOTE if maxDate is defined, this will be ignored in maxDate's favor.

(V 1.2.6)

• ####toggleTarget: (New)

  Default: null,
  Description: A JQuery selector, on click of which, calender will toggle display(show/hide).

(V 1.2.7)

• ####setCurrentDateWhenEmpty:(New)

  Default: false
  Description: Specifies if current date should be set in input field, when calender opens and model is empty. (Before addition of this option, it used to always set the current date in model, if model is not a valid date)

• ####altTarget: (Updated)

  Default: null
  Description: A CSS selector, on clicking on which calender opens. (If this is passed as a string selector(e.g: '#id'), will be evaluated after page load.)

• ####toggleTarget: (Updated)

  Default: null
  Description: A CSS selector, on click of which, calender will toggle display(show/hide). (If this is passed as a string selector(e.g: '#id'), will be evaluated after page load.). (Only for non-inline usage).

Requirements

• Angular v1.5.3+
• Moment v2.12.0+
• JQuery v1.6+ (Dependency added in v1.2.7, will be great if someone can remove this dependency)