Question

Using the jquery datepicker ui, the value attributes of the associated html fields don’t update immediately.

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/4tXP4/

From the horses mouth:
http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/alt-field.html

If you inspect the elements you will see that neither value attributes update.

What’ missing with these?

Answer 1

working demo http://jsfiddle.net/UBMXq/ or http://jsfiddle.net/3BLwK/9/ or http://jsfiddle.net/wrCv7/

1 things:

• missing # “altField”:”#startDate”
• (optional) i.e. DateFormat might need some attention – I reckon dont use value in your hidden input

Hope this helps! :)

code

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#startDate_picker").datepicker({
        "altField":"#startDate",
        "dateFormat":"d M y",
        "altFormat":"Y-m-d",
        "changeMonth":true,
        "changeYear":true
    });
});