Skip a Month in the Calendar in JavaScript Calendar control

06 Jun 2023 / 1 minute to read

The following example demonstrates how to skip a month in the Calendar while clicking the previous and next icons. In the example below, the navigated event is used to skip a month with navigateTo method.

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app.ts

index.html

styles.css

import { Calendar, NavigatedEventArgs } from '@syncfusion/ej2-calendars';
//Creates a calendar component.
let calendarObject: Calendar = new Calendar({ navigated: onNavigate });
calendarObject.appendTo('#element');
//Skips a month while cliking previous and next icons in month view.
function onNavigate(args: NavigatedEventArgs) {
    let date: Date;
    if ((<HTMLElement>args.event.currentTarget).classList.contains('e-next')) {
        //Increments the month while clicking the next icon.
        date = new Date(args.date.setMonth(args.date.getMonth() + 1));
    }
    if ((<HTMLElement>args.event.currentTarget).classList.contains('e-prev')) {
        //Decrements the month while clicking the previous icon.
        date = new Date(args.date.setMonth(args.date.getMonth() - 1));
    }
    if (args.view == 'month') {+
        calendarObject.navigateTo('month', date);
    }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">

<head>
            
    <title>Essential JS 2 Calendar control</title>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <meta name="description" content="Typescript UI Controls" />
    <meta name="author" content="Syncfusion" />
    <!--style reference from the Calendar component-->
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.2.3/ej2-calendars/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <!--style reference from app-->
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" />
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/systemjs/0.19.38/system.js"></script>
    <script src="systemjs.config.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
    <div id='loader'>LOADING....</div>
    <div id='container'>
        <!--element which is going to render the Calendar-->
        <div id='element'></div>
    </div>
</body>

</html>

/* Example - styles */

#container {
    visibility: hidden;
    max-width: 250px;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

#loader {
    color: #008cff;
    height: 40px;
    width: 30%;
    position: absolute;
    top: 45%;
    left: 45%;
}

#element {
    display: block;
}