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Datepickers, Dropdowns, and Host Card

Learn how to add datepickers and dropdowns to the web layouts.

We'll cover the following...

Make the changes

Here's a live code environment to try the changes suggested in the lesson.

Datepickers

There is an interesting website called Gijgo, that has a daterange picker example. We’ll use the example code and integrate it into our theme.

Here is the code we copied from the example.

HTML
<head>
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"
        integrity="sha384-wvfXpqpZZVQGK6TAh5PVlGOfQNHSoD2xbE+QkPxCAFlNEevoEH3Sl0sibVcOQVnN" crossorigin="anonymous">
    <link href="https://unpkg.com/gijgo@1.9.13/css/gijgo.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container">
        Start Date: <input id="startDate" width="276" /> End Date: <input id="endDate" width="276" />
    </div>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/gijgo@1.9.13/js/gijgo.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script>
        let
            today = new Date(
                new Date().getFullYear(),
                new Date().getMonth(),
                new Date().getDate()
            );
        $('#startDate').datepicker({
            uiLibrary: 'bootstrap4',
            iconsLibrary: 'fontawesome',
            minDate: today,
            maxDate: function () {
                return $('#endDate').val();
            }
        });
        $('#endDate').datepicker({
            uiLibrary: 'bootstrap4',
            iconsLibrary: 'fontawesome',
            minDate: function () {
                return $('#startDate').val();
            }
        });
    </script>
</body>

Note that for the datepicker to work, we had to move the jQuery <script> up into the <head> tag. After these changes, our card now looks like this.

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