Question

I have a datepicker that I create with the following code.

$('.myClass').find('input').datepicker({showOn: 'button',
            buttonText: 'Date'});

if the user checks a checkbox I want to change the options of that datepicker. I tried to do the following but I am not having any luck.

$('.myClass').datepicker('destroy');
//I didnt have this line intially but was reading it may be necessary
$('.myClass').removeClass('hasDatepicker').removeAttr('id');;
$('.myClass').find('input').datepicker({showOn: 'button',
            buttonText: 'Date', firstDay: 1, showWeek: true});

Answer 1

Is there some reason you can’t pass in the modifications to your datepicker options object on change based on whether the box is checked? Normally I wouldn’t suggest destroying and recreating the datepicker unless you really needed to. The datepicker widget allows you to change options dynamically, like so:

$("#theCheckbox").change(function() {
    $(".myClass").datepicker("option", this.checked ?
        {
            firstDay: 1,
            showWeek: true
        } :
        {
            firstDay: 0,
            showWeek: false
        });
});