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();

Show getTime() value (H:i:s format)

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 Show getTime() value (H:i:s format)

Advanced usage #2

Using a ‘from’ and ‘to’ input. We use a ‘from_selector’ argument in the set of options on the ‘to’ field. Thismakes the time autocomplete aware of the time in the otherfield. If the ‘from’ field is ‘8:00 AM’ and we start typing into the ‘to’ field with ‘4’, it will show us a listof 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 Show getTime() value (H:i:s format)

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](http://api.jqueryui.com/autocomplete/). 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, Safari)

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