newswriter/js/datepicker.js

NewsWriter is a generic tool for maintaining news and announcements on a website news page. Details are held in an SQLite database, from which the tool generates the index page (typically the top page of the target site), individual pages for events and a

datefield=document.createElement("input")
datefield.setAttribute("type", "date")
if (datefield.type!="date"){ //if browser doesn't support input type="date", load files for jQuery UI Date Picker
    document.write('<link href="css/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />\n')
    document.write('<script src="js/jquery.min.js"><\/script>\n')
    document.write('<script src="js/jquery-ui.min.js"><\/script>\n')
}
 
function fixDateField (node) {
    if (datefield.type!="date"){ //if browser doesn't support input type="date", initialize date picker widget:
        jQuery(function($){ //on document.ready
            $.datepicker.setDefaults( {dateFormat:'yy-mm-dd'} )
            $('#' + node.id).datepicker();
        })
    }
}

function initDateFields () {
    var nodes = document.getElementsByClassName('date-field');
    for (var i=0,ilen=nodes.length;i<ilen;i+=1) {
        var node = nodes[i];
        fixDateField(node);
    }
}