An Excellent Javascript Calendar Widget

Apr 14, 2007

A recent project required me to go hunting for a decent calendar widget that could be used to pick dates and insert the result into the accompanying text field. There are a lot of options out there, but not many that are elegant. I eventually decided on Brian McAllister’s Unobtrusive Date-Picker Widget. It’s extremely elegant in that it installs the same way as projects like Lightbox:

  1. Add a class name to the associated tag
  2. Include a javascript and stylesheet

It keeps your markup clean and is painless to use. I think the result is excellent and highly recommend it to anybody looking for a calendar widget.