Highlight selected date

[MgsGH]

Hi,

I am new to the Event Calendar, but I have successfully stitched it into my existing code. It's nice!

I have a couple of questions. As usual, a disclaimer: I may have overlooked something obvious.

Is the start of the week always Sunday? Is there a way of changing this? I am supplying different locales, but this doesn't affect the rendering of the week start.

Is there a way of highlighting the selected day? I have tried a workaround inspired by "optional highlight classes #446", creating a background event when selecting a day. However, I run into other issues here. The week display shows it, but the month display doesn't. Is this possible to address or is there a simpler way?

It is also a little cumbersome to create and destroy background events when clicking in the calendar, but "doable".

[vkurko]

Hello,

Is the start of the week always Sunday? Is there a way of changing this?

See firstDay option.

Is there a way of highlighting the selected day?

See highlightedDates option.

[MgsGH]

Vladimir, *Many* thanks for your feedback. I had overseen these options. I owe you a beer for wasting your time. However, I have a suggestion I believe would be greatly beneficial for your component. I found this: [image: image.png] I tested the allEventsUpdated callback function a little. It almost solved a requirement I have. I would like to change the display of the dates based on something that isn't necessarily related to the events that day. See below. Our season opens on the 1st of April, and I'd like to highlight this in the calendar. Kindly see below. [image: image.png] This is something that calendar creators seem to have overlooked. In my case, I would like to highlight dates when we are open (for instance), perhaps show weekends and holidays in another color, or days "fully booked" in another color, and so forth. A callback function along the same lines as allEventsUpdated, let's call it "beforeRenderDate" would solve this gracefully. With this, the dates display could be tweaked, unrelated to the (possible) events. In my example above, I simply added a CSS-class to change the display of the date. I hope you give this some thought. I would make the component even better! Best wishes, /Magnus

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[vkurko]

@MgsGH The screenshots are missing from your message.