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Overview
The ASP.NET MVC Calendar is a control used to display the date and days of the week. It provides month, year, and decade views to navigate quickly to a desired date. It supports minimum dates, maximum dates, and disabled dates to restrict the date selection.
Why choose Syncfusion Essential Studio® ASP.NET MVC Calendar?
Easy to interact
You can restrict the user to choosing a date from a predetermined range of dates. Any date in the ASP.NET MVC calendar can be disabled to make it inactive.
Calendar views
Calendar has predefined views to give a flexible approach to choosing dates.
Islamic calendar
The ASP.NET MVC Calendar component lets users show the Islamic calendar(Hijri calendar) in addition to the Gregorian calendar.
Adapts to any resolution
Calendar has a highly responsive layout and an optimized design for desktops, touchscreens, and smart phones. It works well on all mobile phones that use iOS, Android, or Windows OS.
Attractive, customizable themes
Cutting-edge design with several built-in themes, such as Fluent, Tailwind CSS, Bootstrap, Material, and Fabric. Utilize the online Theme Studio tool to customize themes easily.
Globalization and localization
With built-in globalization options,a culture-specific date format and first day of the week can be chosen. The text of the month, day, and today button can be translated to any supported language.
ASP.NET MVC Calendar Code Example
Easily get started with the ASP.NET MVC Calendar using a few simple lines of HTML code example as demonstrated below. Also explore our ASP.NET MVC Checkbox Example that shows you how to render and configure a Calendar in ASP.NET MVC.
@Html.EJS().Calendar("calendar").Render()Month or year picker
Select only the month or year as a value (month picker or year picker) in the ASP.NET MVC Calendar control.


Date selection within a date range
You can restrict the ASP.NET MVC Calendar control so that only a date value within a specific range of dates can be entered or selected by specifying the minimum and maximum date options.
Multiple date selection
Configure the ASP.NET MVC Calendar control to allow users to select single or multiple date values (sequence or random date selection).


Multiple languages
Change the culture-specific date format and first day of the week, and translate the text of the month, day, and today buttons to any supported language with built-in globalization features.
Change first day of week
Automatically change the first day of the week by specifying a culture or change it based on your application requirements.


Disabled dates
Disable any date in the calendar to make it inactive. Easily prevent the selection of weekends and holidays by disabling them.
Custom calendar
The ASP.NET MVC Calendar control has a standard, built-in theme but provides complete control over its appearance, allowing you to customize the style to suit your application.


Highlight weekends
Highlight any date in a year or every weekend in a month as special days using custom styling.
Week number
Show the week number of a selected date in the ASP.NET MVC Calendar control by enabling the week number option.


Web accessibility
- Fully supports WAI-ARIA accessibility guidelines that allow calendars to be accessed by screen readers and assistive devices.
- Follows WAI-ARIA best practices for implementing keyboard interaction.
- Uses WCAG 2.0-based design for UI element visuals such as foreground color, background color, line spacing, text, and images.
- Supports right-to-left (RTL) rendering for users working in right-to-left languages like Hebrew and Arabic.
Accessibility

Keyboard navigation
The ASP.NET MVC Calendar component ensures that every cell is accessible using the keyboard. Major features like sort, select, and edit can be performed using keyboard commands alone; no mouse interaction is required. This helps in creating highly accessible applications using this component.

Screen reader
The ASP.NET MVC Calendar view has complete WAI-ARIA accessibility support. The Calendar UI includes high-contrast visual elements that help visually impaired people to have the best viewing experience. Also, valid UI descriptions are easily accessible through assistive technologies such as screen readers.

Right to left (RTL)
Right-to-left rendering allows displaying the text and layout of the Calendar from right to left. This improves the user experience and accessibility for RTL languages.
Other supported frameworks
The Calendar component is also available in Blazor, Angular, React, Vue, and JavaScript frameworks. Check out the different Calendar platforms from the links below,
Supported browsers
The ASP.NET MVC Calendar works well with all modern web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Safari, and Opera.

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Frequently Asked Questions
Why should you choose Syncfusion Essential Studio® ASP.NET MVC Calendar?
A lightweight, feature-rich, and easily configurable calendar component.
Next-level features such as multiple date selection, date range restriction, week numbers, and configurable first day of the week.
- Supports standard Syncfusion themes which include Bootstrap v5 and Tailwind CSS.
Multiple calendars, such as Gregorian and Hijri are supported in internationalization, with a fully configurable UI and web accessibility.
Basic views in the calendar like month, year, and decade.-One of the best ASP.NET MVC Calendars in the market that offers a feature-rich UI.
Simple configuration and API.
- Supports all modern browsers.
- Mobile-touch friendly and responsive.
Extensive demos and documentation to learn quickly and get started with ASP.NET MVC Calendar.
Where can I find the Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC Calendar demo?
You can find our ASP.NET MVC Calendar demo, which demonstrates how to render and configure the Calendar.
Can I download and utilize the Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC Calendar for free?
No, this is a commercial product and requires a paid license. However, a free community license is also available for companies and individuals whose organizations have less than $1 million USD in annual gross revenue, 5 or fewer developers, and 10 or fewer total employees.
How do I get started with Syncfusion ASP.NET MVC Calendar?
A good place to start would be our comprehensive getting started documentation.
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