Question

In my web site, I have two date inputs,

 <label>From : </label><input class="datepicker" id="from" name="from" value="<?php echo $from;?>" size=11 type="text">
 <label>To : </label><input class="datepicker" id="to" name="to" value="<?php echo $to ;?>" size=11 type="text">

And in the javascript part, I have the following code

$(function() {
  $( ".datepicker" ).datepicker({ altFormat: 'yy-mm-dd' });
  //getter
  var altFormat = $( ".datepicker" ).datepicker( "option", "altFormat" );
  //setter
  $( ".datepicker" ).datepicker( "option", "altFormat", 'yy-mm-dd' );
  });

But when I select the date, it still returns a date with 04/04/2012 format instead of yy-mm-dd.

How should I solve this problem ?

Thanks

Answer 1

Lol, here we go again. first of all:

• altFormat: The dateFormat to be used for the altField option. This allows one date format to be shown to the user for selection purposes, while a different format is actually sent behind the scenes. For a full list of the possible formats see the formatDate function

• dateFormat: The format for parsed and displayed dates. This attribute is one of the regionalisation attributes. For a full list of the possible formats see theformatDatefunction.

See Working jsFiddle Here

You might also want to see an answer i gave a few minutes ago here, with more fiddles.