Adding date picker interfaces to input boxes quickly

Date pickers provide the user with an easy-to-use interface to allow them to quickly select the date they require. jQuery UI provides a date picker that can be quickly added to input fields. The date picker provides many configuration options such as date formatting and restrictions, making it easier for the developer to limit the user's input accordingly. This recipe will show you how to add the date picker to two input fields, change the date format of the date pickers, and also apply date limits to each of the fields.

Getting ready

As with the previous recipe, create recipe-4.html, recipe-4.js, and recipe-4.css within the chapter9 folder you created earlier.

How to do it…

Perform each of the ...

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