Skip a Month in the Calendar in JavaScript (ES5) Calendar control

31 Mar 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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index.js

index.html

styles.css

ej.base.enableRipple(true);
   
   var calendar = new ej.calendars.Calendar({
       navigated: onNavigate 
    });

    function onNavigate(args) {
    var date;
    if (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 ((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);
    }
}

    calendar.appendTo('#element');

<!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/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-base/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/ej2-calendars/styles/material.css" rel="stylesheet">
    <!--style reference from app-->
    <link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet">
    
    
<script src="https://cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/21.1.35/dist/ej2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>

<body>
    
    <div id="container">
        <!--element which is going to render the Calendar-->
        <div id="element"></div>
    </div>


<script>
var ele = document.getElementById('container');
if(ele) {
    ele.style.visibility = "visible";
 }   
        </script>
<script src="index.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</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;
}