A recent project required me to go hunting for a decent calendar widget that could be used to pick dates and insert the result into the accompanying text field. There are a lot of options out there, but not many that are elegant. I eventually decided on "Brian McAllister's Unobtrusive Date-Picker Widget":http://www.frequency-decoder.com/2006/10/02/unobtrusive-date-picker-widgit-update/. It's extremely elegant in that it installs the same way as projects like "Lightbox":http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/: # Add a class name to the associated tag # Include a javascript and stylesheet It keeps your markup clean and is painless to use. I think the result is excellent and highly recommend it to anybody looking for a calendar widget. !http://myersds.com/attachments/128/cal.jpg! 2007-04-14T20:52:19+00:00 0 <p>A recent project required me to go hunting for a decent calendar widget that could be used to pick dates and insert the result into the accompanying text field. There are a lot of options out there, but not many that are elegant. I eventually decided on <a href="http://www.frequency-decoder.com/2006/10/02/unobtrusive-date-picker-widgit-update/">Brian McAllister&#8217;s Unobtrusive Date-Picker Widget</a>. It&#8217;s extremely elegant in that it installs the same way as projects like <a href="http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/">Lightbox</a>:</p> <ol> <li>Add a class name to the associated tag</li> <li>Include a javascript and stylesheet</li> </ol> <p>It keeps your markup clean and is painless to use. I think the result is excellent and highly recommend it to anybody looking for a calendar widget.</p> <p><img src="http://myersds.com/attachments/128/cal.jpg" alt="" /></p> 128 1 1 notebook/2007/04/14/an_excellent_javascript_calendar_widget