add today text to left of datepicker button

[sfriedman]

The following patch (against 1.8.7) adds the text 'Today' to the left of the button to enable quick selection of 'today'.

--- jquery.ui.datepicker.js.bak 2010-12-10 05:39:12.000000000 -0500 +++ jquery.ui.datepicker.js 2011-01-11 17:43:03.000000000 -0500 @@ -191,6 +191,9 @@

}).bind("getData.datepicker", function(event, key) {

return this._get(inst, key);

});

+ if (this._get(inst,'showToday')) { + input.after('<a onclick="$(\'#'+$(input).attr('Id')+'\').val($.datepicker.formatDate(\'yy -mm-dd\', new Date()))">this._get(inst,'todayText')</a>'); + }

this._autoSize(inst); $.data(target, PROP_NAME, inst);

},

[Scott González]

You can do this on your own.

[sfriedman]

I did this on my own. But, the purpose of these widgets is to do common cases easily. We believe that this feature is a common need.