jquery ui datepicker setDate not working properly

Question

I have a very simple setup which is surprisingly not working:

HTML

<input type="text" value="08/03/2016" class="datepicker" />

JS

$(document).ready(function() {
   $('.datepicker').datepicker({
       setDate: "08/03/2016"
   });
});

No matter if having input-value set or not, its always showing up October 2015 on open. Why so?

Which Datepicker library are you using ? Have you try a different date format, like 2016-03-08 ? — ôkio
– ôkio, Commented Oct 30, 2015 at 13:26

vijayP · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-30 13:35:02Z

2

Try this:

$( ".datepicker" ).datepicker( "setDate", "08/03/2016" );

Its a method call and not the option while initializing it.

answered Oct 30, 2015 at 13:35

vijayP

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Florian · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-30 13:38:48Z

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You have to initialize the datepicker first:

$(function() {
    $('.datepicker').datepicker();
    $('.datepicker').datepicker("setDate",  "08/03/2016");
});

answered Oct 30, 2015 at 13:38

Florian

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