Description
Tigra Calendar is a free cross-browser JavaScript Calendar control, it improves the user experience by enabling a drop-down calendar for date fields in web forms.
Features
- Easy to use – no programming skills required
- Small footprint – no need to add large JavaScript framework if all you need is date picker
- Easy customization and styling via CSS
- Simple localization
- Attaches to existing form fields, plays nicely with existing styling
- Can be attached dynamically – perfect for AJAX applications
- Supports any date format similar to PHP’s date(..) function
- Efficient, well formatted code full of code snippets to borrow – great learning source
- Works in all modern browsers including mobile platforms
- Can be used in any kind of web applications (PHP/ASP/CGI etc.)
- Public domain software – FREE to use any way you want
Benefits
- Fast and simple date entry improves user experience
- Use of the calendar eliminates date formatting errors
- Invalid dates such as February 30 can not be entered via the calendar
Setup
- Upload calendar files to your website
- Link calendar resources (JS and CSS) to your pages
- Add class=”tcal” to text input(s)