Scroll by year with Date Picker

[Techhead]

How can I change the date picker to scroll by year and month rather
than just the month? I am creating an web enabled employment
application and want to use date pickers for past employment. If users
have to scroll by month, it will not be feasible to choose a date 5-10
years ago. Of course, they can just type it in but would be nice to
have a date picker with this functionality.

 

[Greg Collins]

Sadly, there's no customization of the built-in date picker. There might be
custom ActiveX controls available (or you might be able to produce one) that
will suit your needs. I'm not personally aware of any though.

 

[Clay Fox]

Obviously they can enter a date directly.
Another option is to break out the componenets into drop downs one for month
one for year. Often on employement history you won't have an exact day anyway
so you could do it like most credit card expirations.
Then behind the scenes you can reconstruct the data into a date format if
you wanted.