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KendoReact Date Inputs Overview

The KendoReact Date Inputs enable the user to pick up dates for scheduling appointments.

The Date Inputs components are part of the KendoReact library which provides native Kendo UI components for the React ecosystem and are available under the kendo-react-dateinputs NPM package.

The DateInputs package is part of KendoReact, a professionally built commercial UI library. To try out this package you need to sign up for a 30-day trial, which gives you access to the full KendoReact library.

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Calendar

A component for date selection and navigation.
DateInput

An input field which recognizes and formats values as dates.
DatePicker

A component which allows the fast selection of date values.
DateRangePicker

A set of directives and components which provide date-range selection.
DateTimePicker

A component which allows the fast selection of date and time values.
MultiView Calendar

A component with multiple month views which provides date selection and navigation.
TimePicker

A component for selecting time values from a time-list.

Basic Usage

The following example demonstrates the Calendar, DateInput, DatePicker, and TimePicker components in action.

class App extends React.Component {
    state = { value: new Date() };

    render() {
        return (
            <div className="row example-wrapper" styles={{ minHeight: 450 }}>
                <div className="col-xs-12 col-md-6 example-col">
                    <p>DateInput</p>
                    <DateInput
                        value={this.state.value}
                        onChange={this.changeDate}
                    />
                    <p>(use <code>←</code> and <code>→</code> to navigate, <code>↑</code> and <code>↓</code> to update)</p>
                    <p>DatePicker</p>
                    <DatePicker
                        value={this.state.value}
                        onChange={this.changeDate}
                    />
                    <p>(use Alt+<code>↓</code> to open the calendar, <code>←</code> and <code>→</code> to navigate, <code>↑</code> to increment and <code>↓</code> to decrement the value)</p>
                    <p>TimePicker</p>
                    <TimePicker
                        value={this.state.value}
                        onChange={this.changeDate}
                    />
                    <p>(use Alt+<code>↓</code> to open the time list, Tab to move to the next time section in the popup, <code>↑</code> to increment and <code>↓</code> to decrement the value)</p>
                </div>
                <div className="col-xs-12 col-md-6 example-col">
                    <Calendar
                        value={this.state.value}
                        onChange={this.changeDate}
                    />
                </div>
            </div>
        );
    }

    changeDate = ({ value }) => {
        this.setState({ value });
    }
}

ReactDOM.render(
    <App />,
    document.querySelector('my-app')
);

Installation

  1. Download and install the package. Use Node.js v5.0.0 or later.

    npm install --save @progress/kendo-react-dateinputs @progress/kendo-react-intl

  2. Once installed, import the package module.

    // ES2015 module syntax
import { DateInput, Calendar, DatePicker, TimePicker, MultiViewCalendar, DateRangePicker } from '@progress/kendo-react-dateinputs';
    // CommonJS format
const { DateInput, Calendar, DatePicker, TimePicker, MultiViewCalendar, DateRangePicker } = require('@progress/kendo-react-dateinputs');

  3. You are required to install one of the Kendo UI themes to style your components. For more information on how to add the styles, refer to the article on getting started.

Dependencies

The Date Inputs package requires you to install the following peer dependencies in your application:

  • react 16.8.2*
  • react-dom

The DateInputs package is part of KendoReact, a professionally built commercial UI library. To try out this package you need to sign up for a 30-day trial, which gives you access to the full KendoReact library.

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