enabling drop down capabilities for month and year would be highly appreciated
by forum users

forum reference: http://www.icefaces.org/JForum/posts/list/5896.page

http://www.icefaces.org/JForum/posts/list/6498.page

Another feature missing on the dateinput is the time selection controls. Drop downs or sliders for hr,min and sec. This can be another component extending the existing dateInput so that users who do not want it can still use the base version.

Thanks

Note that when navigating the months by arrow buttons, you can navigate across year boundaries, i.e. Jan -> Dec of year before, or Dec -> Jan of year after. This is not possible using a month drop down list.

However, if the new renderMonthAsDropdown attribute is set to false (default) and the new renderYearAsDropdown attribute to true, thereby using arrow buttons for month navigation and a drop down list for year navigation, then you require much more complicated rendering logic to keep the year drop down list in sync with the month navigation.

From discussion with Mark:

• always scroll the selected year (originally from backing bean, if null, current year) to the middle
• add a style class to control styling of selected year
• no need to store start year anymore
• year list size changed to 11 (for centering), keep as internal constant for now, not settable by user

Style class of selected year can't be set because the calendar component makes use of the SelectOneMenu component to render the dropdown list, and the SelectOneMenu component doesn't have such an option.

IE doesn't seem to recognize any styles set for the <option> element at all, and XHTML doesn't allow any element (e.g. <span>) inside the <option> element, so changing the SelectOneMenu component itself won't solve anything.

CSS attribute selectors (i.e. *.iceSelInpDateMoYrDropdown option[selected]) work in Firefox but not in IE, so still no luck.

All requirements from discussion with Mark done except style class for selected item.