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Option to prevent selection of dates in the past

Open avh4 opened this issue 6 years ago • 2 comments

(Split off from #25)

We need to disable selection of dates in the past.

  • Style disabled dates differently, and remove the hover highlight and cursor: pointer
  • Prevent clicking on disabled dates
  • Prevent selection of disabled dates when typing directly in the text input (this looks like it will require some refactoring of the current code to be able to implement cleanly)
  • I think it's better to have the API a bit more generic and instead let the user optional provide an "earliest" date rather than just having a way to disallow dates in the past. (This is also in line with a future need of ours, where we'd like to limit the selection to a date range (with both a min and a max date)
  • possible future enhancement: disable the month/year back buttons when going back would go to a month that has no enabled dates in it

I have a PR in progress that mostly implements this already.

avh4 avatar Jul 29 '17 20:07 avh4

I think there are values in allowing users to just disable certain dates regardless they're in the future the past. One use case I can think of is if you want to black out some specific dates. So maybe we can provide these options of disabling date.

  • A range of dates (this includes before a date, or after a date, or between a date)
  • A specific list of dates.
  • Some kind of pattern/rule. (e.g: Every second Monday of every month). Not sure how the API will look like yet, but I think it's worth mentioning right now.

I think, for now, we can implement the 1st option, and then add the other options later on.

abadi199 avatar Aug 02 '17 19:08 abadi199

Sounds good-- the range is nice because it's easy to determine when/if the month/year nav buttons can be disabled. So just doing (1) for now sounds good.

Should have a PR for this later this week.

avh4 avatar Aug 02 '17 20:08 avh4