I have an AJAX view using Views 3 and Better Exposed Filters (and therefore jQuery UI datepicker). One of the exposed filters is dates between [post-date] (core).
The form works fine, but when dates are entered and submitted (via AJAX) the visible entries in the input fields disappear.
Before:
After:
It doesn't happen to other text fields, only date fields, and it stops happening when I change the Exposed Form type to 'Basic'. I'm sure it's BEF causing the issue but what's really puzzling is that the input values are there in the HTML after submit:
<input ... value="2015-05-01" ...>
Why isn't it showing in the input field?
[edit:] I tried to reproduce this on a blank site and couldn't. No longer certain the root cause is in BEF.
Additional information:
I've tracked the problem down to some custom JQuery code to add options to the datepicker post-render. The options are added no worries, I just can't figure out why it breaks the inputs.
(function ($) {
Drupal.behaviors.myPageFilters = {
attach: function (context, settings) {
$("label[for='edit-post-date-max']", context).once('changeBetweenText', function(){
$(this).text("to");
});
// This is the culprit, commenting out this block stops the weird behaviour
$(".bef-datepicker", context).once('changeDatePickerFormat', function(){
$(this).datepicker("option", "changeYear", true).datepicker("option", "changeMonth", true);
$(this).datepicker("option", "dateFormat", "yy-mm-dd").datepicker("option", "showButtonPanel", true);
$(this).datepicker("option", "buttonImage", "/sites/all/themes/mytheme/images/exposed-filter-calendar.png").datepicker("option", "showOn", "both");
});
$(".bef-secondary-options", context).once('createSecondarySubmit', function(){
$(this).append('<input type="submit" id="bef-secondary-submit" value="Apply" class="form-submit">');
});
}
};
}(jQuery));
It's this:
$(this).datepicker("option", "dateFormat", "yy-mm-dd");
I placed it there to change the date format away from the US format provided in BEF code (AUS site).
I just discovered the jQuery UI Datepicker option field in BEF. /facepalm
I'll leave this question here in case anyone ends up with the same issue.
