Do not close datepicker until close button is clicked.

[graywh]

It would be nice if there was a new option to keep the datepicker widget open until the close button is clicked. Obviously, it would have to require or imply showButtonPanel is set to true.

[Jörn Zaefferer]

This shouldn't be an option, but a cancellable select-event.

[Jörn Zaefferer]

Should take this into account for the datepicker redesign.

[Scott González]

What are the use cases for this? When do you have a datepicker that opens from the text field but doesn't close after you've selected a date?

[graywh]

US Americans often think about dates in month-day-year order. Almost every time I use a widget, I select the month and day first and have to re-open the widget to select the year.

[Scott González]

Are you aware of this being a widespread problem? I'm not aware of many (any?) sites that provide UIs in which the current year is not the most likely to be chosen or its not obvious that you need to change the year. Do you have examples of other datepickers that behave this way?

[graywh]

I mostly work with data collection applications where the dates entered are for things like birth, diagnoses, or surgeries. These are rarely the current year. As I took some time to compose this, I realized what's really important is making sure the user explicitly selected the year. I could use a group 3 selects for year, month, and day and have them default to a blank option, but some users want to be able to enter dates via the keyboard into a text box (such as "2001-03-29") and some want a fancy widget.

[Scott González]

I don't recall seeing any similar requests, so I'm going to close as wontfix. You can achieve this behavior by using an inline date picker and controlling when it's opened and closed.