In search of JavaScript Month Picker

I'm in search of a JavaScript month selection tool. I'm already using jQuery on the website, so if it were a jQuery plugin, that would fit nicely. I'm open to other options, as well.

Basically, I'm after a simplified version of the jQuery UI Date Picker. I don't care about the day of the month, just the month and year. Using the Date Picker control feels like overkill and a kludge. I know I could just use a pair of select boxes, but that feels cluttered, and then I also need a confirmation button.

I'm envisioning a grid of either two rows of six columns, or three rows of four columns, for month selection, and current and future years across the top. (Maybe the ability to list a few years? I can't see anyone ever needing to go more than a year or two ahead, so if I could list the current and next two years, that would be swell.)

It's really just a dumbed down version of the DatePicker. Does something like this exist?

Ben Koehler from this equivalent question offers a jquery ui hack that works decently. Quoted here for convenience, all credit is his.

JSFiddle of this solution

-- Here's a hack (updated with entire .html file):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
    $('.date-picker').datepicker( {
        changeMonth: true,
        changeYear: true,
        showButtonPanel: true,
        dateFormat: 'MM yy',
        onClose: function(dateText, inst) { 
            var month = $("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-month :selected").val();
            var year = $("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-year :selected").val();
            $(this).datepicker('setDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
        }
    });
});
</script>
<style>
.ui-datepicker-calendar {
    display: none;
    }
</style>
</head>
<body>
    <label for="startDate">Date :</label>
    <input name="startDate" id="startDate" class="date-picker" />
</body>
</html>

To anyone still looking forward into this (as I was), here is an beautiful, easy to use, jQuery UI compatible, well documented, tested alternative:

Month picker example

Its default usage is simple as doing the following:

$("input[type='month']").MonthPicker();

GitHub
Fiddle with Examples and tests

Found one on lucianocosta.info. It looks pretty good:

Month Picker in action

UPDATED 2016-02-13: link that works

I used this script in a program a while back. While it is ancient, it works on all browsers well. If you look down to "Month-select calendar" I believe that is what you are looking for. The example that is there has the calendar opening in a new window (ew) but 1 setting (like the 2nd example) makes it show ala jQuery. Good luck.

Feel free to have a look on my own jQuery plugin :

Monthpicker screenshot

Easy to use :

$("#myTextInput").Monthpicker();

There is not a lot of options yet, but you can bound the input to a restricted range of month.

There are also events that provide a way of coding interdependency between two monthpicker (start & end date)

You can find a live demo here : Codepen

You are free to take the source code from Github and change whatever you want : Github repository

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