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<h4>In document:</h4><div dojoType="datepicker" widgetId="foo"></div>
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<h4>Dropdown:</h4>
<div dojoType="dropdowndatepicker"></div>
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<h4>General info:</h4>
<p>One of the goals with the original DatePicker widget was to not build it specifically into a container widget. That way, it would be flexible for someone to place it into whatever container type they found to be most useful. To just include a date picker in the page, you can use the following simple markup: <div dojoType="datepicker"></div></p>
<p>To get the value out of the DatePicker, you can either read the value of the DatePicker instance's storedDate property</p>
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dojo.widget.byId("foo").storedDate;
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<p>Or, to be updated any time the value changes, you can connect to the setDate method to listen for any change in the DatePicker's stored value:
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function handler(rfcDate) {
dojo.debug(rfcDate);
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dojo.event.connect(dojo.widget.byId("foo"), "setDate", handler);
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<p>Note that the date is returned in an RFC3339 date format, of the form 2005-06-30T08:05:00-07:00</p>
<h4>Dropdown version</h4>
<p>The most common use case for a DatePicker is a small dropdown icon representation that is connected to a form field. The example makes a somewhat naive attempt at syncing the value in form field with the value displayed in the DatePicker. It also shows the usage of throwing together a quick custom widget in a custom namespace.</p>
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