datepicker calendar renders at wrong vertical position

[jezaustin]

On Firefox 3.0.5 & IE7, jQuery 1.3, jQuery-UI 1.6rc5, the datepicker calendar is rendered too high up in the document, and I must scroll up to find it. Seems to be going wrong in _checkOffset, where

// now check if datepicker is showing outside window viewpoint -
// move to a better place if so.
offset.left -= (offset.left + dpWidth > viewWidth && viewWidth > dpWidth) ?
    Math.abs(offset.left + dpWidth - viewWidth) : 0;
offset.top -= (offset.top + dpHeight > viewHeight && viewHeight > dpHeight) ?
    Math.abs(dpHeight + inputHeight*2 - viewHeight) : 0;

I replaced with these lines, which butt the calendar up against the bottom and/or right edges of the view port if necessary.

if (offset.left + dpWidth > $(document).scrollLeft() + viewWidth 
    && viewWidth > dpWidth) 
    offset.left = $(document).scrollLeft() + viewWidth - dpWidth;

if (offset.top + dpHeight > $(document).scrollTop() + viewHeight
    && viewHeight > dpHeight)
    offset.top = $(document).scrollTop() + viewHeight - dpHeight;

But I'm not super confident that I understood the purpose of the original code.

[bgunnink]

I can confirm this bug with Firefox 3.0.5, jQuery 1.3, an UI 1.6rc5.

Datepicker instances on the top or middle of the page function as expected, but any instances which will clip the bottom of the viewport are placed near the top of the page.

[Spir]

Example of the bug

[kuroi]

The algorithm makes the incorrect implicit assumption that the page is located top left in the view point. If it is not, then the _checkOffset method will attempt to relocate the calendar upwards and/or leftwards to appear there.

On long pages where the visitor has scrolled down this can result in the calendar being moved so far upwards that it is rendered outside the actual current viewable area.

[chrisv]

Was about to submit new ticket when I found this one - I'm adding this link in case it assists in debugging.

Example (with ghastly html, I won't try to explain why!):

 http://bookings.premiersport.org/admin/candidates/test-cand.html

Datepickers on date fields lower down the page appear higher than they should, most noticable on the very bottom one.

I've simplified as far as I could the HTML to narrow down testing issues, but as I strip out html, the problem diminishes.

The problem is more noticable on IE(7.0) than FF(3.0).

[caphun]

Fixed in r1820. Thank you Spir and chrisv for the test cases.

[pointym5]

I'm seeing a problem that may be similar to this, with 1.7.2 on top of jQuery 1.4. My input field is towards the top of an iframe, and the datepicker code gives it a "top" offset of -33 pixels for some reason.

[pointym5]

Replying to pointym5:

I'm seeing a problem that may be similar to this, with 1.7.2 on top of jQuery 1.4. My input field is towards the top of an iframe, and the datepicker code gives it a "top" offset of -33 pixels for some reason.

No, my problem was different. The code in "_checkOffset" that tries to adjust for the datepicker spilling out of its viewable page area was deciding to slide the top of the datepicker 50 pixels to the north. I'm not sure why that's better than just letting me see the bottom of the datepicker box cut off; that would certainly have been less confusing. However it's not at all related to this issue.