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March 3, 2026

DatePicker Lands

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Segun Adebayo

@thesegunadebayo

Today we're shipping Chakra UI v3.34 with one of the most requested additions: DatePicker.

Date inputs look simple until you build them. Keyboard navigation, locale-aware formatting, range selection, unavailable dates, multiple calendar views, positioning, and form integration all add up fast. DatePicker gives you these behaviors out of the box, with an API that fits the rest of Chakra UI.

DatePicker Features

• Single-date, range, and multiple-date selection
• Day, month, and year views
• Built-in support for unavailable dates, min/max constraints, and locale
• Presets for quick picks like "Last 7 days"
• Date + time workflows for datetime input
• Form-friendly API for controlled and uncontrolled usage

Range Selection

For booking flows, analytics filters, and reporting dashboards, set selectionMode="range".

Presets and Time Selection

When you need "Last 7 days"-style shortcuts or datetime workflows, DatePicker has you covered with presets and time input support.

Need time precision too? Pair it with time input for datetime workflows.

Also in v3.34

Alongside DatePicker, we shipped a round of important fixes and DX improvements:

• Ark UI exports: Closed export gaps across Select, Combobox, Listbox, and Menu (including missing types and Select.List for virtualization).
• CheckboxGroup: Fixed a TypeScript error when passing ref.
• globalCss: Fixed element selectors like p, m, h, and w being incorrectly treated as utility shorthands and dropped.
• Field: Fixed Field.ErrorIcon default sizing so it stays aligned with error text.
• CLI typegen: Added --tsconfig and automatic tsconfig resolution to fix solution-style tsconfig setups.

Upgrading

npm install @chakra-ui/react@latest

This release is backward compatible, so you can upgrade and start using DatePicker right away.

Try it out and tell us what you build in Discord or on Twitter.