Add jQuery UI datepicker for the Date element of the datetime field [#2467351]

Some browsers doesn't support the HTML 5 date input, so we need to add a JS fallback to support those.

This should improve the usability for people using there browsers (like firefox, IE) dramatically, as all people expect to get support entering a date with the correct format in a date field.

Note this issue it not about the design of the date picker in various core themes.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#5	Näyttökuva 2015-04-13 kello 14.06.17.png	42.33 KB	Anonymous (not verified)
#4	interdiff.txt	2.48 KB	googletorp
#4	drupal-date-field-js-fallback-4.patch	4.74 KB	googletorp
#2	drupal-date-field-js-fallback-2.patch	7.11 KB	googletorp

Comments

Comment #1

googletorp commented 8 April 2015 at 09:15

Issue summary:

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Comment #2

googletorp commented 8 April 2015 at 11:36

Status:

Active

» Needs review

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new	drupal-date-field-js-fallback-2.patch	7.11 KB

I've added a patch for this.

I've looked at how it's done for machine name fields and copied the style from there.

In order to make a date picker we need to have the date format which I've added to the date element, since the process function doesn't have access to the wrapper element.

Note: If testing this with the seven theme - it does some CSS overrides for jquery.ui theme, and thus the styles for the datepicker is more or less broken. I believe this should be handled in a separate issue.

Comment #3

vijaycs85

London, UK

commented 8 April 2015 at 11:38

Issue tags:

+d8date

Comment #4

googletorp commented 10 April 2015 at 08:22

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new	drupal-date-field-js-fallback-4.patch	4.74 KB
new	interdiff.txt	2.48 KB

I made a mistake making the last patch, which included some changes for debugging JS behaviors.

Also some of the documentation was off.

New patch included.

Comment #5

Anonymous (not verified) commented 13 April 2015 at 12:52

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Status:	Needs review	» Needs work

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new	Näyttökuva 2015-04-13 kello 14.06.17.png	42.33 KB

Commented on wrong issue /sorry for hassle/

Comment #6

googletorp commented 13 April 2015 at 12:45

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Status:	Needs work	» Needs review

@b0unty You should note there is a separate issue for the theming of the date picker, which will look different depending on which theme is being used. This issue is not about theming the date picker.

I mentioned the styling issues with the Seven theme in #2 and have added it as a related issue (see the right sidebar)

Putting this back to needs review.