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I know that Datepicker doesn't use the button widget for next/prev buttons.

My first thought when implementing this was use the datepicker styles.

But I could not do that because the styles are scoped to .ui-datepicker.

If I wrap my month picker markup with a ui-datepicker class it messes up my layout.

Seeing that you also think that datepicker should use the button widget for next/prev buttons are you willing to discuss building support for this into the button widget?

If I have some kind of spec I can implement it and open a PR on GitHub.

I think a good spec could be adding a .ui-button-transparent class to the element the button widget is instantiated on.

Feel free to suggest a better class name.

However i am open to adding this for 1.13 while this is a button style that we have never supported it is becoming common and does work well in some cases. Before i can say what this will look like ( it may be an option rather than a class ) i'll have to do some playing around with how it will work and discuss with the rest of the team. If you want to discuss this more we have meetings every wednesday on IRC in #jquery-meeting at noon eastern time. You can also feel free to ping me in any issues or PR's on github im arschmitz there.

Just a side note since your using the widget factory. The new classes option is added by default to all widgets going through the factory and you may want to take advantage of it in your own widget. 

I would definitely want to discuss this new option more.

I will do my best to attend the meeting on Wednesday.

 I think this option will also be great for the Datepicker rewrite that's going on.

Seeing that Datepicker is going towards using standard jQuery UI practices it would be great to replace the non-standard button with a standard button with this new option.