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Inside this article we will see the concept i.e How To Disable Specific Dates In jQuery Datepicker Tutorial. Article contains the classified information about Disable Specific Dates in jQuery UI Datepicker.

In many web application you have seen this disable feature of jQuery Datepicker. If you are looking for the same solution here, then you are at the right place to learn.

Let’s get started.

Application Programming

Let’s create a folder with name jquery-datepicker in your localhost directory. In this project folder, create a file: index.html

Open index.html and write this complete code into it.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
    <title>How To Disable Specific Dates In jQuery Datepicker</title>
    <link href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.9.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.8.3.min.js"></script>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.9.2/jquery-ui.js"></script>
    <style type="text/css">
        .container {
            border-radius: 5px;
            padding: 50px 20px;
            margin: 30px auto;
            width: 40%;
            border: 2px solid #bbb;
            text-align: center;
        }
        
        input {
            padding: 5px;
            background-color: #eeeeee;
        }
        
        h2 {
            text-align: center;
            margin-top: 100px;
            font-weight: 600;
        }
    </style>
</head>

<body>
    <h2>How To Disable Specific Dates In jQuery Datepicker</h2>
    <div class="container">
        <label>Select Date :</label>
        <input type="text" class="date">
    </div>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
    var array = ["05-12-2022", "08-12-2022", "17-12-2022", "21-12-2022"];

    $("input").datepicker({
        beforeShowDay: function(date) {
            var string = jQuery.datepicker.formatDate('dd-mm-yy', date);
            return [array.indexOf(string) == -1]
        }
    });
</script>

</html>

Concept

Set of dates to disable from datepicker

var array = ["05-12-2022", "08-12-2022", "17-12-2022", "21-12-2022"];

jQuery code to disable above dates

$("input").datepicker({
    beforeShowDay: function(date) {
        var string = jQuery.datepicker.formatDate('dd-mm-yy', date);
        return [array.indexOf(string) == -1]
    }
});

Application Testing

Open your browser.

Next,

Your project URL will be like this.

URL: http://localhost/jquery-datepicker/index.html

You can see, successfully dates are disabled from datepicker.

We hope this article helped you to learn How To Disable Specific Dates In jQuery Datepicker in a very detailed way.

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