Description
Tigra Calendar is a free cross-browser JavaScript Calendar control, it improves the user experience by enabling a drop-down calendar for date fields in web forms.
Features
- Easy to use - no programming skills required
- Small footprint - no need to add large JavaScript framework if all you need is date picker
- Easy customization and styling via CSS
- Simple localization
- Attaches to existing form fields, plays nicely with existing styling
- Can be attached dynamically - perfect for AJAX applications
- Supports any date format similar to PHP's date(..) function
- Efficient, well formatted code full of code snippets to borrow - great learning source
- Works in all modern browsers including mobile platforms
- Can be used in any kind of web applications (PHP/ASP/CGI etc.)
- Public domain software - FREE to use any way you want
Benefits
- Fast and simple date entry improves user experience
- Use of the calendar eliminates date formatting errors
- Invalid dates such as February 30 can not be entered via the calendar
Setup
- Upload calendar files to your website
- Link calendar resources (JS and CSS) to your pages
- Add class="tcal" to text input(s)
Tigra Calendar PRO additionally offers:
- Even more appearance configuration options including the layout of the calendar controls
- Events and API can be used to hook multiple calendars for date range selection and implementing various business logic
- Date limits (minimum and maximum allowed dates) are supported as either absolute date or relatively in days from today
- Reset date to today button
- Forbidden dates list (by date, by day of week etc)
- List of holidays or other dates requiring special highlighting (for example those not available for booking) supported
- Allowed dates list (blacks out all the dates except those listed)
- Configurable behavior on out of range date selection
- Multiple modes: drop-down, pop-up and in-page calendars