How to get the value from a Dijit.Calendar?

Question

This is an easy one, at least I thin it is.

I declared a Dijit.Calendar in my markup and it loads up fine and works. But I don't understand how I would access the value.

What I want to do is, that a textbox next to the calendar is updated to contain the date the user selected. I don't care if it's updated as soon as the user clicks a date or needs to somehow confirm his selection. I just want an idea on how to achieve this.

Sadly the reference guide doesn't provide any information other than how to set the thing up...

Answer 1

Answered by dleonardi on the dojo IRC.

Basically one connects the onChange event to the widget instance, which can be retrieved with dijit.byId() ( not dojo.byId() ).

The returned instance then simply contains a property called value , which is an instance of Date .