Mind Buzzer: 02/02/11

Hey Are you anxious for adding calendar in your JSP Program. if so then you don't need to worry more.

Here I am just giving a fabulous solution for you. I am just providing the code of adding a JAVA Script calendar that works on client side and will give you a sophisticated way for entering date in your JSP page without rendering server side execution. And it is just very simple to integrate in your application.

I assume that your have a basic Idea about server side and client side code as well as JAVA Script so I haven't mentioned the explanation for the code below. Hope this will remove your pain. If it does then Never forget to comments.

Step 1 :

Create a java script file in you web content folder and add the code script.

FileName :datepicker.js

Step 2 : Add a css file for your calendar style in your web content folder and just paste the style defined below .

FileName : datepicker.css

body {
    font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: .8em;
    }

/* the div that holds the date picker calendar */
.dpDiv {
    }

/* the table (within the div) that holds the date picker calendar */
.dpTable {
    font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 12px;
    text-align: center;
    color: #505050;
    background-color: #ece9d8;
    border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;
    }

/* a table row that holds date numbers (either blank or 1-31) */
.dpTR {
    }

/* the top table row that holds the month, year, and forward/backward buttons */
.dpTitleTR {
    }

/* the second table row, that holds the names of days of the week (Mo, Tu, We, etc.) */
.dpDayTR {
    }

/* the bottom table row, that has the "This Month" and "Close" buttons */
.dpTodayButtonTR {
    }

/* a table cell that holds a date number (either blank or 1-31) */
.dpTD {
    border: 1px solid #ece9d8;
    }

/* a table cell that holds a highlighted day (usually either today's date or the current date field value) */
.dpDayHighlightTD {
    background-color: #CCCCCC;
    border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;
    }

/* the date number table cell that the mouse pointer is currently over (you can use contrasting colors to make it apparent which cell is being hovered over) */
.dpTDHover {
    background-color: #aca998;
    border: 1px solid #888888;
    cursor: pointer;
    color: red;
    }

/* the table cell that holds the name of the month and the year */
.dpTitleTD {
    }

/* a table cell that holds one of the forward/backward buttons */
.dpButtonTD {
    }

/* the table cell that holds the "This Month" or "Close" button at the bottom */
.dpTodayButtonTD {
    }

/* a table cell that holds the names of days of the week (Mo, Tu, We, etc.) */
.dpDayTD {
    background-color: #CCCCCC;
    border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;
    color: white;
    }

/* additional style information for the text that indicates the month and year */
.dpTitleText {
    font-size: 12px;
    color: gray;
    font-weight: bold;
    }

/* additional style information for the cell that holds a highlighted day (usually either today's date or the current date field value) */
.dpDayHighlight {
    color: 4060ff;
    font-weight: bold;
    }

/* the forward/backward buttons at the top */
.dpButton {
    font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 10px;
    color: gray;
    background: #d8e8ff;
    font-weight: bold;
    padding: 0px;
    }

/* the "This Month" and "Close" buttons at the bottom */
.dpTodayButton {
    font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-size: 10px;
    color: gray;
    background: #d8e8ff;
    font-weight: bold;
    }

Step 3 :

Just add the following code in your index.jsp page and run the program. However you can use the calendar in the same way on other page by following the same method as in index.jsp
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="datepicker.css"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="datepicker.js"></script>

</head>
<body>

<b>Date:</b><input type="text" name="date" id="cdate">
<input type=button value="Select Date" onclick="displayDatePicker('date', this);">
</body>
</html>
Hope this will help you....

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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Calendar in JSP