Open datepicker popup on input click in React Datepicker component

24 Jan 20232 minutes to read

You can open the DatePicker popup on input focus by calling the show method in the input focus event.

The following example demonstrates how to open the DatePicker popup when the input is focused.

// import the datepickercomponent
import { DatePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
export default class App extends React.Component {
    onFocus(args) {
        this.dateObj.show();
    }
    render() {
        return (
        // Specifies the tag for render the DatePicker component
        <DatePickerComponent focus={this.onFocus.bind(this)} placeholder="Choose a date" ref={scope => { this.dateObj = scope; }}/>);
    }
}
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));
// import the datepickercomponent
import { DatePickerComponent } from '@syncfusion/ej2-react-calendars';
import * as React from 'react';
import * as ReactDOM from 'react-dom';

export default class App extends React.Component<{}, {}> {

    public onFocus(args: FocusEventArgs){
        this.dateObj.show();
    }

    public render() {
        return (
            // Specifies the tag for render the DatePicker component
            <DatePickerComponent focus={this.onFocus.bind(this)} placeholder="Choose a date" ref = {scope => {this.dateObj = scope }}/>
        );
     }
 }

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('element'));