jQuery UI Datepicker monthNamesShort Option

Last Updated : 19 Mar, 2021

jQuery UI consists of GUI widgets, visual effects, and themes implemented using jQuery, CSS, and HTML. jQuery UI is great for building UI interfaces for the webpages. The jQuery UI Datepicker monthNamesShort option is used to set the list of abbreviated month names. It is used in the month header on each datepicker. Its default value is [ “Jan”, “Feb”, “Mar”, “Apr”, “May”, “Jun”, “Jul”, “Aug”, “Sep”, “Oct”, “Nov”, “Dec” ].

Syntax:

$( ".selector" ).datepicker({
  monthNamesShort: [ "Jan", "Feb", ... , "Nov", "Dec" ]
});

CDN Link: First, add jQuery UI scripts needed for your project.

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css”>
<script src=”//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.js”></script>
<script src=”//code.jquery.com/ui/1.12.1/jquery-ui.js”></script>

Example:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang="en"> 
  
<head> 
    <meta charset="utf-8" /> 
    <link href= 
    "https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/themes/ui-lightness/jquery-ui.css"
        rel="stylesheet" /> 
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js"> 
    </script> 
    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.4/jquery-ui.js"> 
    </script> 
  
    <!-- Javascript -->
    <script> 
        $(function () { 
            $("#gfg").datepicker({ 
                dateFormat: "M", 
                monthNamesShort: ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "Maj", 
                    "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"] 
            }); 
        }); 
    </script> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
    <h3>jQuery UI Datepicker monthNamesShort Option</h3> 
  
    <div>Enter Date: <input type="text" id="gfg" /></div> 
</body> 
  
</html>