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Selecting Week Days in the DatePicker

Environment

Product Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC DatePicker
Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC version Created with the 2022.3.913 version

Description

How can I select the days of the week from the Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC DatePicker?

Solution

  1. Hide the initially rendered days of the week within the Popup Calendar of the DatePicker for Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC.
  2. Create a flag variable which will hold the days of the week.
  3. To select the days of the week, handle the .MonthTemplate() and pass the current date as an argument.
  4. Within the function handler, parse the date argument to a Date object. To get the current day, use the .getDay() method and obtain it from the previously defined flag variable.
    @(Html.Kendo().DatePicker()
          .Name("datepicker")
          .Value(DateTime.Today)
          .Footer("Today - #=kendo.toString(data, 'd') #")
          .MonthTemplate(month => month.Content("#= getDays(date) #"))
    )
    <script>
        var weekdays = ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"]; // Create a flag variable for the days of the week.

        function getDays(date){
            var parsedDate = new Date(date); // Parse the date argument.

            var weekday = weekdays[parsedDate.getDay()]; // Get the current week day from the previously defined flag variable.

            return weekday;
        }  
    </script>
    <style>
    /* Popup window size week headers.*/
    .k-calendar-thead > .k-calendar-tr
    {
        display:none;
    }

    /* Popup window size. */
    .k-calendar .k-calendar-view {
        width: 330px;
        padding: 0px;
        font-size:10px;
    }
    </style>

For the complete implementation of the suggested approach, refer to the Telerik REPL example on selecting the days of the week within the DatePicker.

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