react-date-picker

What is react-date-picker?

The react-date-picker package is a flexible and customizable date picker component for React applications. It allows users to select dates from a calendar interface and provides various customization options to fit different use cases.

What are react-date-picker's main functionalities?

Basic Date Picker

This code demonstrates a basic usage of the react-date-picker component. It initializes a date state and renders a DatePicker component that allows the user to select a date.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import DatePicker from 'react-date-picker';

function MyApp() {
  const [date, setDate] = useState(new Date());

  return (
    <div>
      <DatePicker
        onChange={setDate}
        value={date}
      />
    </div>
  );
}

export default MyApp;

Date Range Picker

This code demonstrates how to use react-date-picker to select a date range by using two DatePicker components, one for the start date and one for the end date.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import DatePicker from 'react-date-picker';

function MyApp() {
  const [startDate, setStartDate] = useState(new Date());
  const [endDate, setEndDate] = useState(new Date());

  return (
    <div>
      <DatePicker
        onChange={setStartDate}
        value={startDate}
      />
      <DatePicker
        onChange={setEndDate}
        value={endDate}
      />
    </div>
  );
}

export default MyApp;

Custom Date Format

This code demonstrates how to customize the date format displayed in the react-date-picker component. The 'format' prop is used to specify the desired date format.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import DatePicker from 'react-date-picker';

function MyApp() {
  const [date, setDate] = useState(new Date());

  return (
    <div>
      <DatePicker
        onChange={setDate}
        value={date}
        format="y-MM-dd"
      />
    </div>
  );
}

export default MyApp;

Disable Specific Dates

This code demonstrates how to disable specific dates in the react-date-picker component. The 'tileDisabled' prop is used to specify which dates should be disabled.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import DatePicker from 'react-date-picker';

function MyApp() {
  const [date, setDate] = useState(new Date());

  const disableDates = [
    new Date(2023, 9, 10),
    new Date(2023, 9, 15)
  ];

  return (
    <div>
      <DatePicker
        onChange={setDate}
        value={date}
        tileDisabled={({ date }) => disableDates.some(disabledDate => date.getTime() === disabledDate.getTime())}
      />
    </div>
  );
}

export default MyApp;

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README

React-Date-Picker

A date picker for your React app.

• Pick days, months, years, or even decades
• Supports virtually any language
• No moment.js needed

tl;dr

• Install by executing npm install react-date-picker or yarn add react-date-picker.
• Import by adding import DatePicker from 'react-date-picker'.
• Use by adding <DatePicker />. Use onChange prop for getting new values.

Demo

A minimal demo page can be found in sample directory.

Online demo is also available!

Consider native alternative

If you don't need to support legacy browsers and don't need the advanced features this package provides, consider using native date input instead. It's more accessible, adds no extra weight to your bundle, and works better on mobile devices.

<input aria-label="Date" type="date" />

Looking for a time picker or a datetime picker?

React-Date-Picker will play nicely with React-Time-Picker and React-DateTime-Picker. Check them out!

Getting started

Compatibility

Your project needs to use React 16.3 or later. If you use an older version of React, please refer to the table below to find a suitable React-Date-Picker version.

React version	Newest compatible React-Date-Picker version
≥16.3	latest
≥16.0	7.x

React-Calendar, on which React-Date-Picker relies heavily, uses modern web technologies. That's why it's so fast, lightweight and easy to style. This, however, comes at a cost of supporting only modern browsers.

Legacy browsers

If you need to support legacy browsers like Internet Explorer 10, you will need to use Intl.js or another Intl polyfill along with React-Date-Picker.

Installation

Add React-Date-Picker to your project by executing npm install react-date-picker or yarn add react-date-picker.

Usage

Here's an example of basic usage:

import { useState } from 'react';
import DatePicker from 'react-date-picker';

type ValuePiece = Date | null;

type Value = ValuePiece | [ValuePiece, ValuePiece];

function MyApp() {
  const [value, onChange] = useState<Value>(new Date());

  return (
    <div>
      <DatePicker onChange={onChange} value={value} />
    </div>
  );
}

Custom styling

If you want to use default React-Date-Picker and React-Calendar styling to build upon it, you can import them by using:

import 'react-date-picker/dist/DatePicker.css';
import 'react-calendar/dist/Calendar.css';

User guide

DatePicker

Displays an input field complete with custom inputs, native input, and a calendar.

Props

Prop name	Description	Default value	Example values
autoFocus	Automatically focuses the input on mount.	n/a	true
calendarAriaLabel	aria-label for the calendar button.	n/a	"Toggle calendar"
calendarProps	Props to pass to React-Calendar component.	n/a	See React-Calendar documentation
calendarIcon	Content of the calendar button. Setting the value explicitly to null will hide the icon.	(default icon)	String: "Calendar" React element: <CalendarIcon /> React function: CalendarIcon
className	Class name(s) that will be added along with "react-date-picker" to the main React-Date-Picker <div> element.	n/a	String: "class1 class2" Array of strings: ["class1", "class2 class3"]
clearAriaLabel	aria-label for the clear button.	n/a	"Clear value"
clearIcon	Content of the clear button. Setting the value explicitly to null will hide the icon.	(default icon)	String: "Clear" React element: <ClearIcon /> React function: ClearIcon
closeCalendar	Whether to close the calendar on value selection. Note: It's recommended to use shouldCloseCalendar function instead.	true	false
data-testid	data-testid attribute for the main React-Date-Picker <div> element.	n/a	"date-picker"
dayAriaLabel	aria-label for the day input.	n/a	"Day"
dayPlaceholder	placeholder for the day input.	"--"	"dd"
disableCalendar	When set to true, will remove the calendar and the button toggling its visibility.	false	true
disabled	Whether the date picker should be disabled.	false	true
format	Input format based on Unicode Technical Standard #35. Supported values are: y, M, MM, MMM, MMMM, d, dd. Note: When using SSR, setting this prop may help resolving hydration errors caused by locale mismatch between server and client.	n/a	"y-MM-dd"
id	id attribute for the main React-Date-Picker <div> element.	n/a	"date-picker"
isOpen	Whether the calendar should be opened.	false	true
locale	Locale that should be used by the date picker and the calendar. Can be any IETF language tag. Note: When using SSR, setting this prop may help resolving hydration errors caused by locale mismatch between server and client.	Server locale/User's browser settings	"hu-HU"
maxDate	Maximum date that the user can select. Periods partially overlapped by maxDate will also be selectable, although React-Date-Picker will ensure that no later date is selected.	n/a	Date: new Date()
maxDetail	The most detailed calendar view that the user shall see. View defined here also becomes the one on which clicking an item in the calendar will select a date and pass it to onChange. Can be "month", "year", "decade" or "century".	"month"	"year"
minDate	Minimum date that the user can select. Periods partially overlapped by minDate will also be selectable, although React-Date-Picker will ensure that no earlier date is selected.	n/a	Date: new Date()
monthAriaLabel	aria-label for the month input.	n/a	"Month"
monthPlaceholder	placeholder for the month input.	"--"	"mm"
name	Input name.	"date"	"myCustomName"
nativeInputAriaLabel	aria-label for the native date input.	n/a	"Date"
onCalendarClose	Function called when the calendar closes.	n/a	() => alert('Calendar closed')
onCalendarOpen	Function called when the calendar opens.	n/a	() => alert('Calendar opened')
onChange	Function called when the user picks a valid date. If any of the fields were excluded using custom format, new Date(y, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0), where y is the current year, is going to serve as a "base".	n/a	(value) => alert('New date is: ', value)
onFocus	Function called when the user focuses an input.	n/a	(event) => alert('Focused input: ', event.target.name)
onInvalidChange	Function called when the user picks an invalid date.	n/a	() => alert('Invalid date')
openCalendarOnFocus	Whether to open the calendar on input focus. Note: It's recommended to use shouldOpenCalendar function instead.	true	false
portalContainer	Element to render the calendar in using portal.	n/a	document.getElementById('my-div')
required	Whether date input should be required.	false	true
returnValue	Which dates shall be passed by the calendar to the onChange function and onClick{Period} functions. Can be "start", "end" or "range". The latter will cause an array with start and end values to be passed.	"start"	"range"
shouldCloseCalendar	Function called before the calendar closes. reason can be "buttonClick", "escape", "outsideAction", or "select". If it returns false, the calendar will not close.	n/a	({ reason }) => reason !== 'outsideAction'
shouldOpenCalendar	Function called before the calendar opens. reason can be "buttonClick" or "focus". If it returns false, the calendar will not open.	n/a	({ reason }) => reason !== 'focus'
showLeadingZeros	Whether leading zeros should be rendered in date inputs.	false	true
value	Input value. Note that if you pass an array of values, only first value will be fully utilized.	n/a	Date: new Date(2017, 0, 1) String: "2017-01-01" An array of dates: [new Date(2017, 0, 1), new Date(2017, 7, 1)] An array of strings: ["2017-01-01", "2017-08-01"]
yearAriaLabel	aria-label for the year input.	n/a	"Year"
yearPlaceholder	aria-label for the year input.	"----"	"yyyy"

Calendar

DatePicker component passes all props to React-Calendar, with the exception of className (you can use calendarClassName for that instead). There are tons of customizations you can do! For more information, see Calendar component props.

License

The MIT License.

Author

Wojciech Maj

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