Val Simple Calendar is very flexible and useful plugin for every joomla website, which improves the user experience by enabling a drop-down calendar for date fields in HTML forms.

Features:

- Show/Hide Val Simple Calendar on click of a button (to save space); 
- Draggable option
- Uses document layers - no problems with pop-up blockers 
- Easy customization via CSS file 
- Attaches to existing form fields 
- Can be created dynamically - perfect for AJAX applications 
- Valid XHTHL/CSS 
- Fully customizable by CSS classes
- Support Joomla 1.5

Benefites:

- Fast and simple dates entry improves user experience 
- Use of Val Simple Calendar eliminates date formatting errors 
- Invalid dates such as February 30 can not be entered via Val Simple Calendar 

Additionally offers:

- Support for ANY custom date or time format 
- Even more appearance configuration options including the layout of Val Simple Calendar controls 
- Events and API can be used to hook multiple calendars for date range selection and implementing various business logic 
- Date limits (minimum and maximum allowed dates) are supported as either absolute date or relatively in days from today 
- Reset date to today button 
- Forbidden dates list (by date, by day of week etc) 
- List of holidays or other dates requiring special highlighting (for example those not available for booking) supported 
- Allowed dates list (blacks out all the dates except those listed) 
- Configurable behavior on out of range date selection 
- Multiple modes: drop-down, pop-up and in-page calendars 

Used parameters:

- csspath   		Path to the CSS file for styling the valsexyslider. Default value is 'plugins/content/valsexyslider/css/screen.css'.
- months   		    List of months for Val Simple Calendar.
- weekdays          List of weekdays for Val Simple Calendar.
- yearscroll        If this parameter is set as 'true', that will be showing the year scroller for Val Simple Calendar.
- weekstart         With the help of this parameter you can specify the first day of week: 0-Su or 1-Mo.
- centyear          With the help of this parameter you can specify the 2 digit years less than 'centyear' are in 20xx, othewise in 19xx

For working with the plugin in your HTML-text you should define the following template:
  {valsimplecalendar id=""}
  
With the help of the identifier you should specify the serial number for the instance of Val Simple Calendar.

Example of usage:
  {valsimplecalendar id="1"}

Also you can setting Val Simple Calendar by means of the CSS-file.
	In this file you should specify the following tag (tcal  - calendar container element):

	div#tcal {
		position: absolute;
		visibility: hidden;
		z-index: 100;
		width: 158px;
		padding: 2px 0 0 0;
	}

	
	By means of the following tags you can define settings all tables in Val Simple Calendar
	
	div#tcal table {
		width: 100%;
		border: 1px solid silver;
		border-collapse: collapse;
		background-color: white;
	}

	By means of the following tag you can define settings for week days header.
		
	div#tcal th {
		border: 1px solid silver;
		border-collapse: collapse;
		text-align: center;
		padding: 3px 0;
		font-family: tahoma, verdana, arial;
		font-size: 10px;
		background-color: gray;
		color: white;
	}