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Description
Range pickers allow picker allows the user to set a customized range of dates using a unified component.
Much of the range Range picker’s structure and behavior is are based on the Date Picker, and therefore are not repeated here.
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General guidelines
Structure
Range pickers consist picker consists of:
A range picker field with two date inputs, for:
From date. The start of the range.
To date. The end of the range.
Date picker button. A calendar Icon Button which opens the calendar a drop-down.
Calendar A drop-down, which consists of:
Range picker menu, with a month and year pickers for each half of the calendar.
Two-month calendars.
Component | Image | Comments |
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Range picker field |  | A string indicating the range (From - To) and an icon button. Next to the field, a preceding label can be set describing the purpose of the control. |
Range picker menu |  | 2 month calendars, displayed horizontally from left (start) to right (end). The direction of the dates might change according to RTL languages. |
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The months displayed in the menu can be changed independently.
The user cannot select a To (end) date which is earlier than the From (start) date, or a From (start) date which is later than the To (end) date.
The range picker field will be updated in response to selections made in the calendar drop-down.
When 2 consecutive months are displayed together on the menu, the arrows are disabled accordingly, so that the From month cannot be moved forward and the To month cannot be moved backward:
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Drop-down selectors for months and years should be disabled to prevent a From date which is later than the To date.
The two date inputs in the range picker field can be directly edited, with no need to use the calendar drop-down.
Clicking either the From or To fields or the date picker icon will open the calendar drop-down with the relevant date selected (either From or To).
Clicking the date picker icon is equivalent to clicking on the From date.
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Interaction
Happy flow
1. Clicking on the From field.
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Opens the menu:
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2. Selecting the From date.
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As the user hovers over another date, the dates between it and the selected From date should be highlighted. (The hover state is displayed only if the hovered date is later than the currently selected From date or range). |  |
3. Selecting the To date
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4. Editing an existing range
Clicking on either a From or To field will |
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select the date within the fields |
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and open the menu. |  |
If the From field is selected, the next selection in the menu will move focus to the To field.
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If the To field is selected, the next selection will close the menu.
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Additional case
Whenever a user selects a date that is earlier than the currently selected From date, only the From field will update without changing focus in the range picker fields. |  |
The To field will reset. |
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Validations and errors
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Warning | Error | Comments |
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 |  | In the example, the From date is later than the To date (manually entered). |
Transitions
The calendar drop-down should slide up and down (as with and selecting the right and left arrows should swipe horizontally the dates, see in the Date Picker).
<TBD animations>
Best practices
Use:
Whenever whenever a user is required to set a custom period.
Don’t use:
When when a default set of ranges can be is pre-defined to satisfy the user → a Segmented Button Selector can be a better approach for offering different periods.
General:
If start and end times are also required, use the Time Picker component adjacent to the range picker. Example:
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Code
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