bootstrap-daterangepicker
Dev tools
ui component
SHOW HN2012
363points
80comments
#25of 1,677 in 2012
Top 2%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
17 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 13 critical, out of 50 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Design: 7 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 8 againstIdea: 6 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean UI and useful for adding date ranges
From 4 comments
Love it! Nice UX with the not-allowed cursor on the little FROM and TO boxes. It's amazing how painful date range selection is on so many websites.
stephenhuey on HNThis is incredibly useful - thanks so much.
illdave on HNNice job, very clean UI.
vailripper on HNWow! this is amazingly useful, thanks so much. Needless to say I'll be replacing my crappy date forms with this asap.
s_kilk on HN
Fills a gap in Bootstrap
From 2 comments
great job! Finally, bootstrap really needs this. good job-
jfaucett on HNI was going to have to build something just like this next week, to add arbitrary date ranges to an existing dropdown with pre-defined ranges. Thanks for releasing this. It looks…
Encosia on HN
Objections
No keyboard or typed date input
From 3 comments
It's sad how more and more people ignore non-mouse-or-touch-oriented users in their UIs. What about damn old keyboard support? Even if I modify input, nothing changes in UI. I'm…
przemoc on HNI have to do a ton of clicking to get to last year. It would be much faster to be able to type in arbitrary dates, too, and have the calendars update to reflect those new dates.…
Xurinos on HNWell, kind of. Wouldn't nicer UX be: let the user type the date if he or she wants to?
gmac on HN
Selecting dates out of range is not indicated; no greyed-out dates or range highlight
From 3 comments
This is great, but could use a small tweak: Once you select a start date, it should grey out the dates before the selection in both calendars. That will make it easier to pick an…
timdorr on HNAnd it would automatically do what I was about to suggest - highlight the selected range.
rplnt on HN* Clicking on the calendar itself does not work for the first item, shouldn't it focus the field and open the picker? * Can't [Esc] to close the picker * Not sure why the "Apply"…
masklinn on HN
Depends on the large, unmaintained Datejs library
From 3 comments
* Clicking on the calendar itself does not work for the first item, shouldn't it focus the field and open the picker? * Can't [Esc] to close the picker * Not sure why the "Apply"…
masklinn on HNhttp://momentjs.com/ is a much better library than datejs. It's maintained, tested, smaller?, deals much better with internationalization/custom date formats. I'd recommend it to…
kn8 on HNDatejs is huge. Seems to be a shame they made it a dependency.
donbronson on HN
Requests
Keyboard support and typed date entry
From 2 comments
It's sad how more and more people ignore non-mouse-or-touch-oriented users in their UIs. What about damn old keyboard support? Even if I modify input, nothing changes in UI. I'm…
przemoc on HNI have to do a ton of clicking to get to last year. It would be much faster to be able to type in arbitrary dates, too, and have the calendars update to reflect those new dates.…
Xurinos on HN
Highlight selected range and grey out unselectable dates
From 2 comments
This is great, but could use a small tweak: Once you select a start date, it should grey out the dates before the selection in both calendars. That will make it easier to pick an…
timdorr on HNWould be nice if the dates in the selection range were highlighted, and unselectable dates (eg. later than the end date in left calendar, earlier than start date in right…
mclin on HN
Time and timezone support
From 2 comments
I'd like to see someone do this and handle times and timezones. What a pain that is.
campnic on HNagree, another vote for a date + time picker
angryasian on HN
Questions
Can it be used as a single date picker?
From 1 comment
Nice work. Is there any out of the box way to use this simply as a date picker (popping up one calendar rather than two)?
uripom on HN
Can it be decoupled from Bootstrap?
From 1 comment
Totally understood, by the way - what is it that makes it depend on Bootstrap, could it be easily decoupled?
tommoor on HN
Alternatives named
bootstrap-datepicker by eternicode
From 1 comment
seems the demo doesn't work for me due to js errors. However, seems https://github.com/eternicode/bootstrap-datepicker is good for single datepicker.
yehanyin on HN
Hipmunk date range selector
From 2 comments
Looks nice, but I prefer hipmunk.com's date range selector. It doesn't require a start date picker and an end date picker. You select two dates and it knows the range.
_1 on HN* Clicking on the calendar itself does not work for the first item, shouldn't it focus the field and open the picker? * Can't [Esc] to close the picker * Not sure why the "Apply"…
masklinn on HN
jQuery UI Datepicker
From 1 comment
Other than the styles, I'm not so sure this is much better than the jQuery UI Datepicker.
mmuro on HN