Flexible Date Range Picker With Moment.js – lightPick.js

lightPick.js is a JavaScript library to lets you create a flexible, customizable, multi-language, user-friendly date range picker component using moment.js.

More features:

• Also can be used as a date picker.
• Custom date format.
• Allows you to set min/max dates.
• Useful event handlers and API methods.

How to use it:

Include the necessary moment.js and jQuery lightPick.js libraries at the bottom of the webpage.

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.22.2/moment-with-locales.min.js"></script>
<script src="lightpick.js"></script>

Create a standard input field the date range picker should attach to.

<input type="text" id="demo">

Initialize the date range picker on the input field and done.

const myPicker = new lightPick({
      field: document.getElementById('demo'),
      singleDate: false
});

To initialize the library as a single date picker, set the singleDate options to true.

const myPicker = new lightPick({
      field: document.getElementById('demo'),
      singleDate: true // default: true
});

Sometimes you might need to display the date range using 2 input fields:

<input type="text" id="start">
<input type="text" id="end">

const myPicker = new lightPick({
      field: document.getElementById('start'),
      secondField: document.getElementById('end')
});

Specify the language you want to use. By default, the plugin will detect and use the language based on your browser language.

const myPicker = new lightPick({
      field: document.getElementById('demo'),
      singleDate: false,
      lang: 'en',
});

More configuration options with default values.

const myPicker = new lightPick({
      // target form field
      field: null,
      // end of date range will set here
      secondField: null,
      // first day of the week
      // 1 = Monday
      firstDay: 1,
      // parent element
      parentEl: 'body',
      // language
      lang: 'auto',
      // date format
      format: 'DD/MM/YYYY',
      // separator character
      separator: ' - ',
      // number of months to display
      numberOfMonths: 1,
      // number of columns to display
      numberOfColumns: 2,
      // single date mode
      singleDate: true,
      
      // auto close after selection
      autoclose: true,
      // Repick start/end instead of new range. 
      repick: false,
      // start/end dates
      startDate: null,
      endDate: null,
      // min/max dates
      minDate: null,
      maxDate: null,
      // an array of disabled dates
      disableDates: null,
      // selects second date before/after the first selected date
      selectForward: false,
      selectBackward: false,
      // min/max days
      minDays: null,
      maxDays: null,
      // shows tooltip
      hoveringTooltip: true,
      // hide on click
      hideOnBodyClick: true,
      // shows footer
      footer: false,
      // disabled dates in the range
      disabledDatesInRange: true,
      // 'left' or 'right', 'top' or 'bottom', and 'auto'
      orientation: 'auto',
      // disable Saturday and Sunday.
      disableWeekends: false,
      // inline mode
      inline: false,
      // long (e.g., Thursday), short (e.g., Thu), narrow (e.g., T).
      weekdayStyle: 'short',
      dropdowns: {
        years: {
          min: 1900,
          max: null,
        },
        months: true,
      },
      // localization
      locale: {
        buttons: {
          prev: '←',
          next: '→',
          close: '×',
          reset: 'Reset',
          apply: 'Apply',
        },
        tooltip: {
          one: 'day',
          other: 'days',
        },
        tooltipOnDisabled: null,
      },
      // callbacks
      onSelect: null,
      onOpen: null,
      onClose: null
});

Available event handlers.

const myPicker = new lightPick({
      onSelect: function(start, end){
        // ...
      },
      onOpen:  function(start, end){
        // ...
      },
      onClose: function(start, end){
        // ...
      },
      onError: function(start, end){
        // ...
      }
});

API methods.

// sets a date
myPicker.setDate(date)
// gets current date
myPicker.getDate()
// gets current start of date range
myPicker.getStartDate()
// gets current end of date range
myPicker.getEndDate()
// returns clone dates now
myPicker.getX()
// shows date range picker
myPicker.show()
// hides date range picker
myPicker.hide()
// destroys date range picker
myPicker.destroy()

Changelog:

v1.5.0 (11/13/2019)

• All getX methods returns clone dates now

v1.4.5 (11/04/2019)

• Fix merge conflict

v1.4.4 (11/03/2019)

• Fix autoclose refresh date issue

v1.4.3 (11/02/2019)

• Fix reload options for dropdowns and locale objects

v1.4.2 (11/01/2019)

• Added scss file.

v1.4.1 (10/24/2019)

• Updated

v1.3.6 (10/22/2019)

• Fix minDate, maxDate, disableDates and value format issue

v1.3.5 (10/22/2019)

• Add weekday display style

v1.3.4 (03/30/2019)

• Fixed `setDate` do not work with `inline = true`

v1.3.3 (03/29/2019)

• fix setDate with inline option

v1.3.2 (03/25/2019)

• New option: dropdowns

v1.3.1 (03/22/2019)

• New option: inline (default is false)
• Dropdown list months, years

v1.2.10 (02/13/2019)

• bugfix
• improve sync

v1.2.9 (01/15/2019)

• bugfix

v1.2.8 (12/18/2018)

• improved option orientation (checking available space on top when value is auto)

v1.2.7 (12/10/2018)

• fix bug when used both options repick and minDays (on repick date minDays was ignored)

v1.2.6 (11/08/2018)

• new option: orientation
• new option: disableWeekends
• fixed bug

v1.2.5 (09/11/2018)

• Improve pluralize.

v1.2.4 (08/27/2018)

• Tooltip on disabled days.

v1.2.3 (08/24/2018)

• Removed extra div days in next month.
• new callback: onError Calling when disabledDatesInRange is set to false and user is select range includes disabled dates.
• minor bug fixes

v1.2.2 (08/23/2018)

• new options: disabledDatesInRange, tooltipNights

v1.1.2 (08/22/2018)

• new option: footer

v1.1.1 (08/16/2018)

• Fixed: On select method invoked when Lightpick instance is created

v1.1.0 (07/20/2018)

• drop support IE
• now header (month name) is clickable for fast change month

v1.0.9 (07/19/2018)

• fixed bug

v1.0.6 (07/12/2018)

• Improves styling

v1.0.5 (07/12/2018)

• Bugfix: When a parentEl is provided in options, the position is incorrect

v1.0.4 (07/12/2018)

• Improves CSS

v1.0.3 (07/09/2018)

• Fixed: Can always pick a one-day-range

v1.0.0 (06/22/2018)

• Constructor name to begin with a capital letter: lightPick to Lightpick

v0.0.6 (06/20/2018)

• new option: repick

v0.0.5 (06/19/2018)

• hidden on start

v0.0.4 (06/18/2018)

• Added tooltip
• Option buttons moved to locale