Pikaday Responsive

A responsive datepicker built on top of Pikaday. It shows the native datepicker on mobile devices and a nice JS-picker on desktop. It is realised as a jQuery-Plugin.

Pikaday is a nice and lean datepicker. For more details, see here: https://github.com/dbushell/Pikaday

Try the demo: http://fnovy.com/projects/PikadayResponsive/

Try it on mobile, too:

##Why? Pikaday is a great datepicker, and there are a lot of other datepickers out there that work really well. However, all of them fall short when used on a mobile device, where the native datepickers work best (because they have been specifically optimised for the mobile experience). Native Datepickers have some drawbacks, though:

• The output format cannot be customized
• While they work quite reliably on mobile devices, support on desktop devices is either non-existing (Firefox) or their UX is rather terrible (Chrome).

PikadayResponsive tries to solve this problem.

##How it works Basically, PikadayResponsive tries to detect if you are on a mobile device. For this, Modernizr is used (altough you can choose to use a different feature detection library if you want). It checks for touch and HTML5 input-type date support, and if one of them is missing, it simply displays a Pikaday-datepicker.

If, however, touch AND HTML5-date support are detected, it will instead display a native input type="date". Over this native input field, another, readonly and click-trough input field is displayed, in which a formatted date is displayed.

##Dependencies PikadayResponsive needs the following components to work:

• jQuery
• Moment.js (for date formatting)
• Pikaday (https://github.com/dbushell/Pikaday)
• Modernizr or other feature detection library

##Usage You will need to include the following scripts at the bottom of your site:

<script src="libs/jquery-2.1.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="libs/moment-2.6.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="pikaday/pikaday.js"></script>
<script src="pikaday-responsive.jquery.js"></script>

And in the head-section

<link rel="stylesheet" href="pikaday/pikaday.css">
<script src="libs/modernizr-custom.js"></script>

As mentioned above, you can also use head.js or another feature detection library instead of Moderizr. If you want, you can also use the pikaday-package.js file, which includes Moment.js, Pikaday and PikadayResponsive (it is also minified):

<script src="libs/jquery-2.1.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="pikaday/pikaday-package.js"></script>

The CSS-file contains the basic styles for the Pikaday-Datepicker. You can change/overwrite them as you wish.

To use it, call the following on an input field:

HTML:

<input id="date" name="date" />

JS:

$("#date").pikaday();

##Configuration There are some options to configure PikadayResponsive. Following are the default-values:

$("#date").pikaday({
    displayFormat: "DD.MM.YYYY",
    outputFormat: "unix",
    hasTouch: Modernizr.touch,
    hasNativeDate: Modernizr.inputtypes.date,
    forcePikaday: false,
    placeholder: ""
});

###displayFormat Determines how a date will be displayed in the input-field. Has to be a Moment.js format-string, like DD.MM.YYYY

###outputFormat Determines the output of the field. Basically, this is what you will get if you call $("#date").val()or if you submit the form. Can be:

• unix(default): The unix-timestamp (note that this is NOT the JavaScript-timestamp. If you want the JS-timestamp, you will need to multiply this with 1000)
• input: This will output the input directly. E.g. for native date-field it will output the format "YYYY-MM-DD", for pikaday it will output the displayFormat.
• If it is neither unix nor input, it will be parsed as a Moment.js date-format string, e.g. Do MMM YYYY

###placeholder The placeholder for the input-field.

###hasTouch / hasNativeDate You can overwrite this if you don't want to use Modernizr, or to overwrite it if needed.

###forcePikaday If set to true, Pikaday will always be displayed, no matter the device type.

##Todo The following features will will be added in the near future:

• The possibility to manually configure Pikaday
• Additional function to clear the input field

##Author PikadayResponsive has been created by Francesco Novy | http://www.fnovy.com | [email protected] | @_fnovy

##Credits Credits go to David Bushell and Ramiro Rikkert for creating Pikaday.

• David Bushell http://dbushell.com @dbushell
• Ramiro Rikkert GitHub @RamRik

##Copyright Copyright © 2014 Francesco Novy | MIT license