Datebox

Datebox

• Demonstration: Date and Time
• Java API: Datebox
• JavaScript API: Datebox

Employment/Purpose

An edit box for holding a date. After click on the calender, a calender will pop-up for inputting date.

Mouseless Entry datebox

• Alt+DOWN to pop up the calendar.

• LEFT, RIGHT, UP and DOWN to change the selected day from the calendar.

• ENTER to activate the selection by copying the selected day to the datebox control.

• Alt+UP or ESC to give up the selection and close the calendar.

The First Day of the Week

The first day of the week is decided by the locale (actually the return value of the getFirstDayOfWeek method in the java.util.Calendar).

Since 5.0.3, you can control the first day of the week by use of the session attribute and the library property. Please refer to The First Day of the Week for details.

Customization

Since 5.0.3, the rendering of the calendar can be customized at the client by providing JavaScript code that overrides Renderer.

Example

 <datebox lenient="true" buttonVisible="false" />
 <datebox lenient="false" compact="false" buttonVisible="true" />

Supported events

Name	Event Type
onClick	Event: MouseEvent Denotes user has clicked the component.
onChange	Event: InputEvent An input control notifies the application with the onChange event if its content is changed by the user.
onChanging	Event: InputEvent An input control also notifies the application with the onChanging event, when user is changing the content.
onSelection	Event: SelectionEvent Denotes that user is selecting a portion of the text of an input component. You can retrieve the start and end position of the selected text by use of the getStart and getEnd methods.
onFocus	Event: Event Denotes when a component gets the focus.
onBlur	Event: Event Denotes when a component loses the focus.

Supported Children

Name	Event Type
None	None

Use cases

Version	Description	Example Location

Version History

Version	Date	Content
5.0.3	July, 2010	An application can control the first day of the week by use of the session attribute and the library property. Please refer to The First Day of the Week for details.