clocklet

An opinionated clock-style vanilla-js timepicker.
Demo

Features

• Intuitive - it looks like a clock
• Mouse and touch friendly
  • 3 clicks are sufficient to pick a time - am/pm, hour, minute
  • Click targets often used are large enough
  • No need to scroll
• Keyboard and numpad friendly
  • Autocomplete - e.g. "1"->"01:00", "12"->"12:00", "1234"->"12:34"
  • Support up/down arrow key to increment/decrement
• Declarative usage
  1. Load the stylesheet
  2. Load the script
  3. Add "data-clocklet" attribute to time input elements
• Vanilla JS - no need jQuery or any other frameworks
• Lightweight (CSS + JS ~ 7kB gzipped)

Installation

T.B.D.

Options

Default options

Default options can be set as properties of clocklet.defaultOptions object.
Option names must be described in camelCase.

clocklet.defaultOptions.zIndex = 9999;
clocklet.defaultOptions.format = "hh:mm a";

Element-specific options

Element-specific options can be specified as semicolon-separated data-clocklet attribute value.
Option names must be described in kebab-case.

<input data-clocklet="class-name: my-clocklet-style; placement: top;">

Available options

Name	Type	Default	Description
class-name	string	""	Class name to set to the root element of the popup.
format	string	"HH:mm"	Time format (template) of the input element. Some tokens are replaced with the selected time value. See the format tokens section below.
placement	"top" | "bottom"	"bottom"	Popup placement.
alignment	"left" | "right"	"left"	Popup alignment.
append-to	"body" | "parent"	"body"	The parent element into which the popup element will be inserted.
z-index	number | string	""	Popup z-order. If this value is an empty string, (1 + z-index of the input element) is used.

Format tokens

Token	Range	Description
H	"0" .. "23"	Hour in 0-based 24-hour notation with no padding.
HH	"00" .. "23"	Hour in 0-based 24-hour notation with zero padding.
_H	" 0" .. "23"	Hour in 0-based 24-hour notation with space padding.
h	"1" .. "12"	Hour in 1-based 12-hour notation with no padding.
hh	"01" .. "12"	Hour in 1-based 12-hour notation with zero padding.
_h	" 1" .. "12"	Hour in 1-based 12-hour notation with space padding.
k	"1" .. "24"	Hour in 1-based 24-hour notation with no padding.
kk	"01" .. "24"	Hour in 1-based 24-hour notation with zero padding.
_k	" 1" .. "24"	Hour in 1-based 24-hour notation with space padding.
m	"1" .. "59"	Minute with no padding.
mm	"01" .. "59"	Minute with zero padding.
_m	" 1" .. "59"	Minute with space padding.
a	"am" | "pm"	Post or ante meridiem abbreviation in lowercase without periods.
aa	"a.m." | "p.m."	Post or ante meridiem abbreviation in lowercase with periods.
A	"AM" | "PM"	Post or ante meridiem abbreviation in uppercase without periods.
AA	"A.M." | "P.M."	Post or ante meridiem abbreviation in uppercase with periods.

Events

Following events are raised on the input element by this library.

Type	Cancelable	event.details	Description
clocklet.opening	true	{ options: {...} }	Raised before showing the clocklet popup.
clocklet.opened	false	{ options: {...} }	Raised after showing the clocklet popup.
clocklet.closing	true	{}	Raised before hiding the clocklet popup.
clocklet.closed	false	{}	Raised after hiding the clocklet popup.
input	false	undefined	Raised after changing the input value.

For example:

<input id="my-clocklet" data-clocklet>
<script>
  document
    .getElementById('my-clocklet')
    .addEventListener('clocklet.opening', function (event) {
      console.log(event.details.options);
      if (DO_NOT_NEED_TIMEPICKER) {
        event.preventDefault();
      }
    });
</script>

API

clocklet.defaultOptions

See default options section.

clocklet.open(inputElement[, options])

Show the timepicker for the specified inputElement with the options (optional).

clocklet.close()

Hide the timepicker.

License

WTFPL