Most of your questions can be answered by the date picker docs http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Datepicker
1. Use minDate option 2. If I correctly understand the question, use dateFormat option 3. .ui-icon-circle-triangle-e and .ui-icon-circle-triangle-w. This website allow you to change the ui theme http://jqueryui.com/themeroller/ On Jul 31, 9:03 am, wei <vwu...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just plug in the JQuery into my Spring application. It looks great. > I have a few questions in the regards: > > 1. how to configure the Datepicker so that only the current and future > date can be picked? > 2. how to let the initial date shown as the date format used in the > field? > 3. what are the forward and backward arrow icon names? I make a very > minor modification on the CSS file so that the datepicker will popup > on top of my page. I can't find the arrow icon names in the CSS file. > > Thanks.