Opened 3 years ago
#15381 new bug
Datepicker unusable
Reported by: | Blake McBride | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | minor | Milestone: | none |
Component: | ui.datepicker | Version: | 1.12.1 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Blocked by: | Blocking: |
Description
Greetings,
After spending many hours trying to incorporate your Datepicker into my app, I have failed and I am abandoning the effort. With 40 years of experience, you may want to hear me out. While your date picker works well in a simple little test program, it doesn't work in a real app. Here are the problems:
- The "enter" key should be ignored as it is in all natural inputs. The enter key is a form submit key not a control accept key.
- When you hit the "Done" key, the menu goes away but all focus seems to be gone. The focus should move to the following control.
- You need an option for a "Clear" button. Others have asked for it years ago. It makes a lot of sense in the real world. Sometimes there is no date and the user needs to be able to clear the field.
- The "Today" key should enter today's date and move to the next control just like all browsers work.
- If the user types "" and then tab, the control should not just move on with a totally invalid date.
- The "Today" button shouldn't be dimmed. It looks like it is disabled.
While many of these things can be fixed via a lot of surrounding code and minor modifications to your code, I found it a never-ending task to try to fix everything. It's a shame because a lot of the complex parts work well but you fall on your face with some fundamentals.
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