Question

I want to keep the button panel but I do not want the ‘Today’ or ‘Done’ buttons

jquery:

$(document).ready(function () {
       $(".datepicker").datepicker({
            showOn: "button",
            buttonText: "Date",
            showButtonPanel: true
        });
});

html:

<div>
    <label for="start">Start</label>
    <input id="start" type="text" class="datepicker"/>
</div>

<div>
    <label for="end">End</label>
    <input id="end" type="text" class="datepicker"/>
</div>

Answer 1

UPDATE

apparently the solution I provided is kinda outdated. Please see the answer below for a working fix: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24806307/959041

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you should add the option

showButtonPanel: false

so you have

$("#test").datepicker({
    showButtonPanel: false
});

UPDATE

to remove the buttons but be able to add other buttons you can use the beforeShow event. So you have something like

$("#test").datepicker({
    beforeShow: function() {
        $(".ui-datepicker-buttonpane")
            .html('')
            .append("<button>new button</button>");
    }
});

see http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/#buttonbar for the documentation