How to control positioning of jQueryUI datepicker

Posting this in hopes that it will help others. At least as of v1.8.1 of datepicker, using 'window.DP_jQuery.datepicker' no longer works, because the pointer(right term?) now is named with a timestamp of its creation - so for example it would now be 'window.DP_jQuery_1273700460448'. So now, rather than using the pointer to the datepicker object, refer to it directly like this:

$.extend($.datepicker,{_checkOffset:function(inst,offset,isFixed){return offset}});

Many thanks for the answer below for getting me what I needed.

Edit: JaredC gave an updated answer for later versions of jQuery above. Switching accepted answer to that.

Alright, this is a matter of monkeypatching the feature it has of attempting to always render in the viewport since there's no option provided to enable/disable the feature. Luckily it's uncoupled and isolated in one function so we can just go in and override it. The following code completely disables that feature only:

$.extend(window.DP_jQuery.datepicker,{_checkOffset:function(inst,offset,isFixed){return offset}});

_checkOffset is called when it's opening and it does calculations on the offset and returns a new offset if it would otherwise be outside of the view port. This replaces the function body to just pass the original offset right through. Then you can use the beforeShow setting hack and/or the .ui-datepicker css class to put it wherever you want.

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$('input.date').datepicker();$('input.date').focusin(function(){    $('input.date').datepicker('widget').css({left:"-=127"});});