jQuery Datepicker with FontAwesome Button?

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Solution 1

Add

buttonText: "<i class='fa fa-calendar'></i>"

and add CSS:

.ui-datepicker-trigger{
    border:none;
    background:none;
 }

refer JSFiddler Here.

Solution 2

With the help of @Ankit above, I finally got this working. In case anyone else is trying to do the same thing, here's the code that worked for me.

HTML

  <div class="row">
    <div class="large-3 columns">
        <label>Departure Date</label>
        <div class="row date collapse">
        <div class="small-9 columns"><input class="small-9 columns" placeholder="Choose Date" type="text" name="date" id="departureDate"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
  </div>

  <div class="row">
    <div class="large-3 columns">
        <label>Departure Date</label>
        <div class="row date collapse">
        <div class="small-9 columns"><input class="small-9 columns" placeholder="Choose Date" type="text" name="date" id="returnDate"></div>
        </div>
    </div>
  </div>

JavaScript

$(function() {
    $( "#departureDate" ).datepicker({
      showOn: "both", 
      buttonText: "<i class='fa fa-calendar'></i>"
    });
  });

$(function() {
    $( "#returnDate" ).datepicker({
      showOn: "both", 
      buttonText: "THIS IS A BUTTON!",
    });
  });

CSS

/* Datepicker Styles */

.ui-datepicker-trigger {
    border:none;
    background:none;
    float: right;
}

input.small-9.columns.hasDatepicker {
    float: left;
    width: 73%;
}

button.ui-datepicker-trigger {
    background: #FFF;
    color: #333;
    padding: 9px 14px;
}

button.ui-datepicker-trigger:hover {
    background: #CCC;
}

button.ui-datepicker-trigger i.fa.icon-calendar {
    color: black;
}
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Updated on February 05, 2020

Comments

  • mcography
    mcography about 4 years

    I'm building a site with Foundation, and I have the FontAwesome icons installed. I'm trying to set up a form where a user can click on an input or a button to see the jQuery datepicker. I'd like to be able to use the FontAwesome icon in the button. But I can't seem to get the button to trigger the datepicker.

    EDIT:

    I kind of got it working, but I still can't figure out how to implement the FontAwesome icon. I have this in my HTML:

      <div class="row">
        <div class="large-3 columns">
            <label>Departure Date</label>
            <div class="row date collapse">
            <div class="small-9 columns"><input class="small-9 columns" placeholder="Choose Date" type="text" name="date" id="date"></div>
            </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    

    And this in my JS:

    $(function() {
        $( "#date" ).datepicker({
          showOn: "both", 
          buttonImage: "http://jqueryui.com/resources/demos/datepicker/images/calendar.gif",
          buttonText: "THIS IS A BUTTON",
          buttonImageOnly: true
        });
      });
    

    Where do I put the icon? Can I somehow put it in the buttonText argument?