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: ".gif",
      buttonText: "THIS IS A BUTTON",
      buttonImageOnly: true
    });
  });

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

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?

• javascript
• jquery-ui
• datepicker
• jquery-ui-datepicker
• font-awesome

4 Answers 4

Add

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

and add CSS:

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

refer JSFiddler Here.

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;
}

Your datepicker initialization needs to be in the document ready function...

$(function() {
    $( "#date" ).datepicker();
    $( "#calButton" ).datepicker({
      showOn: "both", 
    });
});

Try .calButton instead of #calButton since you have set class on button not id.

$(function() {
    $( ".calButton" ).datepicker({
        showOn: "both", 
    });
});