One useful tool for web applications is a simple calendar control that you can call from your date input form fields. Having the ability to popup a calendar and select the date makes it easier for users who have to enter dates for future appointments, tasks, and reminders. By doing this the user doesn’t have to look at a separate calendar outside of your web application. Years ago I spent hours writing my own calendar control to do this, and quite frankly, I lost the code and didn’t want to have to rewrite it for my most recent project. So off to Google I went to begin my search. Within a few minutes I had found a control that does exactly what I want from Matt Kruse’s Javascript Toolbox.

Matt Kruse’s examples are very easy to follow, and I think his JavaScript tools are top notch material. I intend to integrate his JavaScript table sorting code into my application next. Below I will detail the steps I performed to get the calendar control working: continue reading…