Question

How can I set a selected date of the jquery datepicker by adding 3 days to the actual date?

Like from 11/01/2011 to 11/04/2011

My current code doesn’t work!

<script type="text/javascript">
        $(function() {$("#datepicker").datepicker();});
        //Set DatePicker to actual date + 3 days
        $('#dateselector').datepicker("setDate", new Date(date.getMonth()+"/"+(date.getDate()+3)+"/"+date.getFullYear()) );                      
</script>

Answer 1

$('#datepicker').datepicker("setDate", "+3");

Working example: http://jsfiddle.net/EryYr/1/

Quote from documentation:

setDate
.datepicker( "setDate" , date )
… The new date may be a Date object or a string in the
current date format (e.g. ’01/26/2009′), a number of days from today
(e.g. +7) or a string of values and periods (‘y’ for years, ‘m’ for
months, ‘w’ for weeks, ‘d’ for days, e.g. ‘+1m +7d’), or null to clear
the selected date.