[SOLVED] jQuery UI DatePicker to show month year only

jQuery UI DatePicker to show month year only

I am using jQuery date picker to display the calendar all over my app. I want to know if I can use it to display the month and year (May 2010) and not the calendar?

Solution

Here's a hack (updated with entire .html file):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.7.2/themes/base/jquery-ui.css">
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function() {
            $('.date-picker').datepicker( {
            changeMonth: true,
            changeYear: true,
            showButtonPanel: true,
            dateFormat: 'MM yy',
            onClose: function(dateText, inst) { 
                $(this).datepicker('setDate', new Date(inst.selectedYear, inst.selectedMonth, 1));
            }
            });
        });
    </script>
    <style>
    .ui-datepicker-calendar {
        display: none;
    }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <label for="startDate">Date :</label>
    <input name="startDate" id="startDate" class="date-picker" />
</body>
</html>

EDIT jsfiddle for the above example: http://jsfiddle.net/DBpJe/7755/

EDIT 2 Adds the month year value to input box only on clicking of Done button. Also allows to delete input box values, which isn't possible in above field http://jsfiddle.net/DBpJe/5103/

EDIT 3 updated Better Solution based on rexwolf's solution down.
http://jsfiddle.net/DBpJe/5106