Question

I have problem to set or show date in datepicker textbox at firsttime
I have two textboxes, the one is for datepicker and the second is for alternate format.

<input type="text" id="birth_date_display" />
<input type="text" id="birth_date" />

and scripts like this

$( "#birth_date_display" ).datepicker({
 dateFormat: "d M, yy",
 altField: "#birth_date",
 altFormat: "yy-mm-dd"
});

my question is, How if i have String like: var datebirth=”2011-08-16″

then i want to set to the textbox.

i had try to make script like this:

document.getElementById("birth_date_display").value = datebirth; //it's NOT works
document.getElementById("birth_date").value         = datebirth; //it's works

thanks 🙂

Answer 1

You want to use the setDate method on the DatePicker:

$( "#birth_date_display" ).datepicker("setDate", datebirth);
$( "#birth_date" ).datepicker("setDate", datebirth);

Edit: You could probably also do it this way, but I haven’t tested it:

$( "#birth_date_display, #birth_date" ).datepicker("setDate", datebirth);