An opinionated clock-style vanilla-js timepicker
npm install clocklet
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An opinionated clock-style vanilla-js timepicker.
Demo

* Keyboard and numpad friendly
* Autocomplete - e.g. "1"->"01:00", "12"->"12:00", "1234"->"12:34"
* Support up/down arrow key to increment/decrement
* Mouse and touch friendly
* 3 clicks are sufficient to pick a time - am/pm, hour, minute
* Click targets often used are large enough
* No need to scroll
* Declarative usage
* Vanilla JS - no need jQuery or any other frameworks
* Lightweight (CSS + JS ~ 7kB gzipped)
``bash`
$ npm install clocklet
`javascript`
import "clocklet/css/clocklet.min.css";
import clocklet from "clocklet";
`html`
clocklet.min.css
clocklet.min.js
Place elements having data-clocklet attribute (either before or after loading the clocklet script).
When these elements get focused, the timepicker popups.
`html`
Default options can be set as properties of clocklet.defaultOptions object.
Option names must be described in camelCase.
`javascript`
clocklet.defaultOptions.zIndex = 9999;
clocklet.defaultOptions.format = "hh:mm a";
Element-specific options can be specified as semicolon-separated data-clocklet attribute value.
Option names must be described in kebab-case.
`html`
| Name | Type | Default | Description |
| ---------- | ------------------------------ | -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| class-name | string | "" | Class name to set to the root element of the popup. |
| format | string | "HH:mm" | Time format (template) of the input element.
Some tokens are replaced with the selected time value.
See the format tokens section below. |
| placement | "top" \| "bottom" | "bottom" | Popup placement. |
| alignment | "left" \| "center" \| "right" | "left" | Popup alignment. |
| append-to | "body" \| "parent" | "body" | The parent element into which the popup element will be inserted. |
| z-index | number \| string | "" | Popup z-order.
If this value is an empty string, (1 + z-index of the input element) is used. |
| Token | Range | Description |
| ----- | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| H | "0" .. "23" | Hour in 0-based 24-hour notation with no padding. |
| HH | "00" .. "23" | Hour in 0-based 24-hour notation with zero padding. |
| \_H | " 0" .. "23" | Hour in 0-based 24-hour notation with space padding. |
| h | "1" .. "12" | Hour in 1-based 12-hour notation with no padding. |
| hh | "01" .. "12" | Hour in 1-based 12-hour notation with zero padding. |
| \_h | " 1" .. "12" | Hour in 1-based 12-hour notation with space padding. |
| k | "1" .. "24" | Hour in 1-based 24-hour notation with no padding. |
| kk | "01" .. "24" | Hour in 1-based 24-hour notation with zero padding. |
| \_k | " 1" .. "24" | Hour in 1-based 24-hour notation with space padding. |
| m | "0" .. "59" | Minute with no padding. |
| mm | "00" .. "59" | Minute with zero padding. |
| \_m | " 0" .. "59" | Minute with space padding. |
| a | "am" \| "pm" | Post or ante meridiem abbreviation in lowercase without periods. |
| aa | "a.m." \| "p.m." | Post or ante meridiem abbreviation in lowercase with periods. |
| A | "AM" \| "PM" | Post or ante meridiem abbreviation in uppercase without periods. |
| AA | "A.M." \| "P.M." | Post or ante meridiem abbreviation in uppercase with periods. |
Following events are raised on the input element by this library.
| Type | Cancelable | event.details | Description |
| ---------------- | ---------- | ------------------ | ----------------------------------------- |
| clocklet.opening | true | { options: {...} } | Raised before showing the clocklet popup. |
| clocklet.opened | false | { options: {...} } | Raised after showing the clocklet popup. |
| clocklet.closing | true | {} | Raised before hiding the clocklet popup. |
| clocklet.closed | false | {} | Raised after hiding the clocklet popup. |
| input | false | undefined | Raised after changing the input value. |
For example:
`html`
See default options section.
Show the timepicker for the specified inputElement with the options (optional).
Hide the timepicker.
Place the timepicker into the containerElement. input` element.
The optional parameter is the binding setting for the