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Oracle APEX Cookbook : Second Edition

You're reading from   Oracle APEX Cookbook : Second Edition Get straight into developing modern web applications, including mobile, using the recipes in this brilliant cookbook for Oracle Application Express (APEX). From the basics to more advanced features, it's a reference book and guide in one.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2013
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ISBN-13 9781782179672
Length 444 pages
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Oracle APEX Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Creating a Basic APEX Application 2. Themes and Templates FREE CHAPTER 3. Extending APEX 4. Creating Websheet Applications 5. APEX Plug-ins 6. Creating Multilingual APEX Applications 7. APEX APIs 8. Using Web Services 9. Publishing from APEX 10. APEX Environment 11. APEX Administration 12. Team Development 13. HTML5 and CSS3 14. Mobile Index

Creating a date scroller with the Mobiscroll plug-in


When you tried to edit the events in the previous recipe, you might have encountered a small issue. On the Apple iOS devices, you get a nice date scroller when you tap on the date field. However, some Android devices don't show any date scroller but just the keyboard, and you have to type in the date yourself. Not very user-friendly. With the Mobiscroll plug-in you can get the same date scroller on Android devices. In this recipe we will show you how to do that.

Getting ready

We will modify a page that was created in the previous recipe so you need to have completed the previous recipe.

Furthermore you need to download the Mobiscroll plug-in at http://code.google.com/p/mobiscroll/downloads/list. There you can find the latest version. We downloaded Version 2.3.1. Unzip the ZIP file and upload the .css and .js files through the following steps:

  1. Go to Shared Components and in the Files section, click on Cascading Style Sheets.

  2. Click on Create...

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