{"id":6317,"date":"2022-09-02T18:03:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T12:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-is-it-possible-to-focus-on-the-hidden-input-field\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T18:03:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T12:33:03","slug":"solved-is-it-possible-to-focus-on-the-hidden-input-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-is-it-possible-to-focus-on-the-hidden-input-field\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Is it possible to focus on the hidden input field?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-39875808\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"39875808\" data-parentid=\"39874737\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Well, I think I understood your query what exactly you want to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>you want to show the <code>datepicker<\/code> without visible container. It seems <strong>impossible<\/strong> because whenever you load datepicker it need some CSS property like <code>left, positioning<\/code> and all. and if datepicker container is hidden it will throw you exception.<\/p>\n<p>Below is another way by which you can achieve this. Create an empty html element and add date picker to it.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the working code; change your html structure accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>JSFiddle: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/jsfiddle.net\/vikash2402\/8w8v9\/2030\/\">http:\/\/jsfiddle.net\/vikash2402\/8w8v9\/2030\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"snippet\" data-lang=\"js\" data-hide=\"false\" data-console=\"true\" data-babel=\"false\">\n<div class=\"snippet-code\">\n<pre class=\"snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override\"><code>$('#showDateContainer').click(function(){\r\n$(\"#showDateItem\").show &amp;&amp; $(\"#showDateItem\").show();\r\n$('#showDateItem').datepicker({\r\n        dateFormat: 'dd-mm-yy',\r\n         onSelect: function(dateText) {\r\n   \t\t$('#dateContainer').text(dateText);\r\n        console.log(dateText);\r\n        $(\"#showDateItem\").hide();\r\n        }\r\n        \r\n    });\r\n});\r\n    \r\n    <\/code><\/pre>\n<pre class=\"snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override\"><code>&lt;link href=\"http:\/\/code.jquery.com\/ui\/1.8.21\/themes\/base\/jquery-ui.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\"\/&gt;\r\n&lt;script src=\"https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/1.7.2\/jquery.min.js\"&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;script src=\"http:\/\/code.jquery.com\/ui\/1.8.18\/jquery-ui.min.js\"&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n&lt;div id=\"showDateContainer\" type=\"button\" &gt;Click here to Shown Date&lt;\/div&gt;\r\n&lt;div id=\"showDateItem\"&gt; &lt;\/div&gt;\r\n&lt;br \/&gt;\r\n&lt;br \/&gt;\r\n&lt;div id=\"dateContainer\" type=\"button\" &gt; currentData &lt;\/div&gt;<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Hoping this will help you \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\">0<\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Is it possible to focus on the hidden input field? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Well, I think I understood your query what exactly you want to achieve. you want to show the datepicker without visible container. 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