How To Make A Monthly Calendar With Real Data | CSS-Tricks

DigitalOcean provides cloud products for every stage of your journey. Get started with $200 in free credit! Have you ever seen a calendar on a webpage and thought, how the heck did they did that? For something like that, it might be natural to reach for a plugin, or even an embedded Google Calendar, but it’s actually a lot more straightforward to make one than you might think and only requires the trifecta of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Let’s make one together!I’ve set up a demo over at CodeSandbox so you can see what we’re aiming for.View DemoLet’s first identify some requirements for what the calendar should do. It should:Display a month grid for a given monthDisplay dates from the previous and next months to so the grid is always fullIndicate current dateShow the name of the currently selected monthNavigate to the previous and next monthAllow the user to navigate back to current month with a single clickOh, and we’ll build this as a single page application that fetches calendar dates...