PeterThoeny: Any thoughts on my JSCalendarContribInline setting the calendar initial date/time problem? tomc20922: did you try the text input field value? i am pretty sure that works Yes. that does work but does not do what I need, The sequence that gives is; (1) write the date into the input form field (2) Click on the calendar (3) Calendar pops up with the current date (not the one in the input field) (4) Next time the calendar is invoked its reflects the value in the input field. AIUI I need to be able to put the initial value into the Calendar.setup {date: } function but cannot get this to work. According to the docs the date: field needs to be filled with a Javascript Date object but I tried and failed to get one which worked. A bona-fide Date objects there does not produce any errors (on the Javascript console) but appears to do nothing, leaving me frustrated! I browsed the JSCalendarContribInline docs on TWiki and around the web but could not find any examples with a filled-in date: field in Calendar.setup() which is why I was wondering if you had something to hand which did this... not sure how that can work I'm afraid I need to go soon (it is the middle on the night here). Now that I have a twiki.org account, / would it help / would you be prepared to / look at a demo of my code in the Sandbox web ? feel free to add a support question in the Support web Thanks. b4n. I have submitted a support question with demo at http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/SID-01608. tnx. Tom.