# Styling the date\_select objects **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 8, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/styling-the-date-select-objects/137101 "2008-05-08T23:06:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joel)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/styling-the-date-select-objects/137101/1 "2008-05-08T23:06:38Z")
Hello People, jsut wanted to know how I could add style to the date\_select helper objects. I’m currently using the style option ( :style =\> ‘’ … " ) but this isn’t working. Anyone could help me with that issue. Best Regards, Joel ---
**Author:** ![joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@joel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joel)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/styling-the-date-select-objects/137101/2 "2008-05-09T03:20:58Z")
Here’s just one example I ran across: [http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/form\_controls/select/](http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/form_controls/select/) Although it’s nice having those helpers and they work fine in many cases, I generally prefer to forgo them altogether for public facing web sites and go with something a lot more flexible. I have used the Zapatec [zapatec.com](http://www.zapatec.com/website/main/products/prod1/index.jsp) JavaScript calendar widget with good success. Unfortunately, getting the resulting date into the database takes a little bit of work on the controller side, since you don’t get the automatic parsing of the date into the database as with the date\_select helpers. This provides a much nicer user experience in my opinion. And if it takes a little bit more work on my part to give my users a great experience then I call that a win.