Get the value of bootstrap Datetimepicker in JavaScript

Question

I need to get the value of Datetimepicker in my JavaScript function. I have made something like this, but it doesn't work:

$("#date").click( function(){     alert(document.getElementById('datetimepicker1').value); }); 

It gives me 'undefined'

Answer 1

Either use:

$("#datetimepicker1").data("datetimepicker").getDate(); 

Or (from looking at the page source):

$("#datetimepicker1").find("input").val(); 

The returned value will be a Date (for the first example above), so you need to format it yourself:

var date = $("#datetimepicker1").data("datetimepicker").getDate(),     formatted = date.getFullYear() + "-" + (date.getMonth() + 1) + "-" + date.getDate() + " " + date.getHours + ":" + date.getMinutes() + ":" + date.getSeconds(); alert(formatted); 

Also, you could just set the format as an attribute:

<div id="datetimepicker1" class="date">     <input data-format="yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss" type="text"></input> </div> 

and you could use the $("#datetimepicker1").find("input").val();