This illustration shows a DatePicker control. It consists of a combo box field and a calendar element.

The combo box field shows the following date: 9/17/2013.

The calendar element is located below the combo box field and shows the dates of September 2013 from 1 to 30. It also shows some dates of the next month, October (the corresponding dates are light gray). The month days are structured in a table. The table header contains the days of week. The first column contains the number of the visible weeks. From left to right the columns are:

The calendar cell that corresponds to September 17 is colored blue; it is the selected date.