I'm looking to fill a text input with a time that the user can choose in 15 minute intervals. I know there are a few plugins out there. I was wondering if there was any “industry standard” plugin, or strong objective reasons to prefer a particular one in common scenarios.
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I found this plugin (github repository) trumps the other one mentioned. It mimics Google Calendar's timepicker.
My advice would be not to do this. I find it bad enough being forced to use a calendar control just to enter a date, especially when not given the option to type a date which I can do way quicker than navigating yet another wacky control.
Time pickers just take this kind of UI fetish to a new extreme. Why not allow your users to either type the time or just use a couple of drop down boxes for hours and mins. Even drop down lists allow a user to just type the time. The time picker in Shog9's answer is all very nice to look at but is incredibly fiddly to use. If I was an end user having to use a data entry app and it had a control like that on the page then it's only going to slow me down and make me want to come and cut off the developers hands. :)
Think about usability first before how slick the app looks.
Just my humble opinion.
It's not jQuery ... but I have found that a dropdown, with a list of fifteen minute intervals of time, 8:00AM, 8:15AM, 8:30AM, and so on, is extremely easy for the user to interact with.
Not sure if you really need a jQuery way of doing this ... may be overkill. Just an opinion based on my personal experience with real users and developing business applications.
I think every answer, except Kev's, is subjective. I've seen tenths of time-picker JQuery plug-ins on the net, and most were useless time consuming gimmicks, but if you already use the standard Jquery datepicker then this plug-in would be appropriate.
My situation was slightly different, I needed a date time picker but couldn't find one either. So I decided to write one. You can find the full source here; I also posted a quick demo.
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