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I hit send a little to soon. I'm using an inline datepicker to manage a custom "inline-datepicker". It would be beneficial for me to have the button panel but before creating a bug I thought I'd ask here. :)
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Brandon Aaron

Hi,
It is by design the button panel is hidden on an inline datepicker - as it doesn't make sense to close an inline datepicker. That said, since the button panel also has a Today button I'm now contradicting myself by saying that some people might want the option to show the today button.
I'll go with whatever the masses want here.
We could change it so the inline datepicker hides the Close button only and not the whole button panel.

Ticket created: <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/4003">http://dev.jqueryui.com/ticket/4003</a>

Fixed in <a href="http://dev.jqueryui.com/changeset/1934">http://dev.jqueryui.com/changeset/1934</a>

Nice! Thanks for moving so quickly on this. However, I think the close button should not be forced hidden. (I'm assuming it is based on this thread, I haven't actually checked for myself). It should still be optional to show the close button. I actually need the close button to show because as I said before I use the inline datepicker as an "inline-editable-datepicker". So I actually have a link that shows the datepicker with no way of hiding it except to choose a date. In other words The date is shown in plain text (no input) and there is a link next to it that says, "change date". Clicking that link manually shows the inline datepicker.
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Brandon Aaron

No problem. It's not ideal but I think this might be closer to what you need:
<a href="http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/datepicker/icon-trigger.html">http://jquery-ui.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/datepicker/icon-trigger.html</a>
You will have to set the input to read-only and make it look like a plain text region.
An inline datepicker should never be closeable because it's inline and always present. Even in its disabled state it simply turns semi-opaque rather than hidden.
The markup combination you want actually goes into more interesting discussions. From the specifications (<a href="http://wiki.jqueryui.com/DatePickerCalendar">http://wiki.jqueryui.com/DatePickerCalendar</a>) we have:
<ul><li>datepicker appears as a popup when attached to a text input field</li><li>datepicker appears inline when attached to a div or span</li></ul>Are the above points too restrictive for the majority of use cases out there? Should we allow the user to specify whether they want a datepicker to popup or display inline from whatever trigger they wish via an option?