Lightweight Date Picker In Vanilla JavaScript

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Description:

Vanilla datepicker is a lightweight vanilla JavaScript plugin used for creating a simple yet configurable date picker attaching to text input fields. No any 3rd libraries required.

How to use it:

Add the JavaScript file vanilla.datepicker.js and style sheet vanilla.datepicker.css to the web page.

<script src="vanilla.datepicker.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="vanilla.datepicker.css">

Initialize the date picker on an input filed like this:

datepicker( '.datepicker', {
  // options here
});

All configuration options.

datepicker.defaults = {
  // First day of week 
  firstDayOfWeek: 0,    
  // Month formats   
  months: {                   
      short: ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'],
      long: ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']
  },
  // Display year navigation
  navigateYear: true,       
  // Date  output format  
  outputFormat:'%Y-%m-%d',    
  // Week formats
  weekdays: {
      short: ['Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat'],
      long: ['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday']
  }
  
}

Changelog:

11/10/2018

• Enable keyboard navigation and selection

10/06/2018

• Fixed Output Format, add parseDate from format

08/02/2018

• Fire a change event when the date value is changed