Question

I have a date picker for text field which puts in format of 5-MAY-2011 .On close of this date picker i need to write to hidden field
or text field in this format 5/5/2011

$( '#txt_field').datepicker({dateFormat: 'dd-M-yy', onClose: function() {$( '#hiddenfield').attr('value' ,$( '#txt_field').datepicker({dateFormat: 'mm-dd-yyyy'}) )}});

when i do this iam getting object object in the hidden field

Answer 1

$('#txt_field').datepicker({
dateFormat: 'dd-M-yy', 
onClose: function() {
    var date = new Date($(this).val());
    if (date) {
        var formattedDate = (date.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + 
                            date.getDate() + "/" + 
                            date.getFullYear();
        $('#hiddenfield').val(formattedDate);
    }
}
});

Sample here: http://jsfiddle.net/rSEnB/