Question

I am working on a jquery date picker. I need to select a date but after date selection from the calendar I need the date to divide into three separate drop downs. One for day one for month and one for year. Here is my jquery script.

  <script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {

   $(function() {
    $( "#fullDate" ).datepicker({
    onClose: function(dateText, inst) {
       $('#day').val( dateText.split('/')[2] );
       $('#month').val( dateText.split('/')[1] );
   $('#year').val( dateText.split('/')[0] );
    }
 });
});
}); 
</script> 

HTML

<div class="demo">

<p>Date: <input id="fullDate" type="text" style="display:block"></p>
day:<select name="day" id="day" style="width:100px">
<option>1</option>
<option>2</option>
<option>3</option>
<option>4</option>
<option>5</option>
</select>

 month:<select name="month" id="month" style="width:100px">
 <option>1</option>
 <option>2</option>
  <option>3</option>
 <option>4</option>
 <option>5</option>
 </select>

year:<select name="year" id="year" style="width:100px">
<option>1</option>
<option>2</option>
<option>3</option>
<option>4</option>
<option>5</option>
</select>
</div><!-- End demo -->

Answer 1

Working demo please click here : ] http://jsfiddle.net/gvAbv/13/ or http://jsfiddle.net/gvAbv/8/

In demo click on the text box and select dates and bingo you will get the drop downs auto populated.

Point to note dateText.split('/')[2] is year not day 🙂 if you will switch over the place your code will work.

i.e. dateText.split('/')[2] : year ; dateText.split('/')[0] : month ; dateText.split('/')[0] : day rest demo will help you to make it clear.

The demo has extra bits but it will help you!

code

$(function() {
    $("#fullDate").datepicker({
        onClose: function(dateText, inst) {
            $('#year').val(dateText.split('/')[2]);
            $('#month').val(dateText.split('/')[0]);
            $('#day').val(dateText.split('/')[1]);
        }
    });
});

ANother Demo for image click: http://jsfiddle.net/zwwY7/

code

$(function() {
    $("#fullDate").datepicker({
         buttonImage: 'icon_star.jpg',
        buttonImageOnly: true,
        onClose: function(dateText, inst) {
            $('#year').val(dateText.split('/')[2]);
            $('#month').val(dateText.split('/')[0]);
            $('#day').val(dateText.split('/')[1]);
        }
    });
});

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