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What is this?

It’s a time picker similar to how Google Calendar’s time picker works for events. It’s meant to be smart, sexy and intuitive.

Some things that make is super duper fantastic:

  • Start time defaults to users current time (within your set increment).
  • Tabbing out of the field without selecting a time will cause it to make an educated guess. Try typing a badly formatted time like 115 or 1 or 1pm or 28 then tabbing out.
  • If the end time is less than the start time, evaluate it to the opposite am/pm of the start time. Example: 7:00AM – 5… 5 will default to PM.
  • Fetch time in H:i:s format (13:30:00) for comparing/validating. Done so by calling $(input).data(‘timeAutocomplete’).getTime()
  • Uses placeholder attribute if detected, if not, it uses our own placeholder text.
  • Oh, and it’s tested 🙂 – see tests/index.html to run tests

Basic usage

$('#basic-example').timeAutocomplete();

Advanced usage #1

Injecting an existing value and using 24hr as the formatter.

$('#from-24hr').timeAutocomplete({
    formatter: '24hr',
    value: '07:00:00'
});

$('#to-24hr').timeAutocomplete({
    formatter: '24hr',
    value: '09:30:00'
});

From To

Advanced usage #2

Using a ‘from’ and ‘to’ input. We use a ‘from_selector’ argument in the set of options on the ‘to’ field. This makes the time autocomplete aware of the time in the other
field. If the ‘from’ field is ‘8:00 AM’ and we start typing into the ‘to’ field with ‘4’, it will show us a list of 4 ‘PM’ instead of 4 ‘AM’ options.

$('#from-ampm').timeAutocomplete({
    increment: 5,
    value: '08:00:00'
});

$('#to-ampm').timeAutocomplete({
    increment: 5,
    from_selector: '#from-ampm',
    value: '17:30:00' // likely populated from your database.
});

From To

Advanced usage #3

$('#from-french').timeAutocomplete({
    formatter: 'french'
});

$('#to-french').timeAutocomplete({
    formatter: 'french',
    value: '17:00:00'
});

From To

Initialization options

Below is a set of options you can pass when you call $(‘#my-input’).timeAutocomplete(options);

options = {
Option key Default value Possible values Description
auto_complete { delay: 0, autoFocus: true, minLength: 0 } (object) View here. Any options to over-ride jQuery UI autocomplete plugin.
formatter ampm (string) ampm | 24hr | french The formatter we want to use
value ” (string) ’13:30:00′ Allows you to pass in a 24hr (H:i:s) time to be formatted and displayed in the field. It’s the same as calling $(‘#from’).data(‘timeAutocomplete’).setTime(’13:30:00′);
from_selector ” (string) #from You’ll want to use this option on the #to element if you’re using the
‘ampm’ formatter. It applies a level of
“smartness” when dealing with both from/to inputs. If your #from input is 8:00 AM then the user types in “5” into the #to input, it will give them possible increments in PM.
increment 15 (int) 5, 10, 15, 30, 60 The increment you want the time dropdown to appear in. A 15 minute increment would produce: [‘7:15 AM’, ‘7:30 AM’, ‘7:45 AM’].
start_hour 0 (int) Any number on or between 0 and 24 What hour you want start the selectable time list to start at.
end_hour 24 (int) Any number on or between 0 and 24 What hour you want the end of the selectable time list to end at.
auto_value true true | false If false, it will not inject the current time as a value. Your input will be empty.
blur_empty_populate true true | false If we blur from the input field and it’s empty, populate it with our empty default value (see next line).
empty {
h: ’12’,
m: ’00’,
sep: ‘:’,
postfix: ‘ PM’
} (object)		 The default empty value 
}

API

Once you initialize timeAutocomplete() on an element, you have access to methods via data(‘timeAutocomplete’).

Method

Args

Description

destroy()

 None Completely removes timeAutocomplete plugin from the input 
$('#my-input').data('timeAutocomplete').destroy();

getTime()

 None Gets the time in H:i:s (13:30:00) format. 
$('#my-input').data('timeAutocomplete').getTime();

setTime(time)

 time: ’13:30:00′ Sets the time by passing in a 24hr format. This will be formatted appropriately before being displayed. NOTE: This should be used instead of .val() 
$('#my-input').data('timeAutocomplete').setTime('13:30:00');

setFormatter(formatter)

 formatter: ‘ampm’ or ’24hr’ or ‘french’ Changes the formatter type on the fly. 
$('#my-input').data('timeAutocomplete').setFormatter('24hr');

Requirements

  • jQuery (only tested with 1.10)
  • jQuery UI w/ Autocomplete plugin (only tested with 1.10.3)

Browser Support

* IE 7+
* All other good browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safar)

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by Jordan Boesch on Jun 6, 2013 - Google+ - 15 comments