jQuery UI datepicker opens automatically within dialog

Question

I have a datepicker which is used within the jQuery dialog object. The source of the dialog's content is loaded using .load(). Within the dialog I created a script which creates a datepicker for the text input.

$("#date").datepicker({ ... });

When I open the dialog for the first time - everything is okay, but if I close it and reopen again, the datepicker is triggered automatically (and there's no such an option like autoOpen:false) Is there any way of preventing this or what am I doing wrong?

Solution 1

I had this exact problem and solved it with only a slight variation on tvanfosson's technique. For some reason I had to manually attach the "click" event to the datepicker field as below.

 $('#dialog').dialog({
 open: function(event, ui) {
    $(ui).find('#date').datepicker().click(function(){
        $(this).datepicker('show');
    });
 },
 close: function(event,ui) {
    $(ui).find('#date').datepicker('destroy');
 }});

(Sorry--I would've preferred to post this as a comment to tvanfosson's post but don't have the requisite rep.)

Solution 2

Much simpler way I found:

$("#dialogPopper").click(
                    function() {
                        $("#date").datepicker("disable");
                        $("#dialog").dialog("open");
                        $("#date").datepicker("enable");
                        return false;
                    }
                  );

Solution 3

When you put the datepicker field at the beginning of the dialog it is opened automatically. You can place a hidden input at the beginning of the dialog.

<input type="text" style="width: 0; height: 0; top: -100px; position: absolute;"/>

Solution 4

You might want to think about destroying the datepicker when the dialog is closed and creating it in the open event handler for the dialog instead of including it as a script in the dialog creation.

 $('#dialog').dialog({
     open: function(event, ui) {
        $(ui).find('#date').datepicker();
     },
     close: function(event,ui) {
        $(ui).find('#date').datepicker('destroy');
     }
 });

You could also experiment with different events/methods to see if you really need to recreate it, but I think that this would work.

Solution 5

The reason is : your first item inside modal form is the datepicker text field, and when the modal is fired, the active control is the one who contains the datepicker.

I found out two alternative solutions:

1. Change the order of your fields. Avoid the one with datepicker to stay in first place.

2. Do not set datepicker to the field in a separate piece of code, do it inside the function that opens the dialog (right after openning $("#dialog").dialog("open");).

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