How can I reinitialize a bootstrap datepicker?

Question

A bootstrap datepicker is initialized on load. How can I change the options for that datepicker after the page is loaded and the datepicker has already been initialized?

See here for an example http://jsfiddle.net/Leoqs1xg/

The weekStart is set to 4 (Thursday) at first with

$('#mydate').datepicker({weekStart: 4});

but if I change it to something else with

$('#mydate').datepicker({weekStart: 1});

weekStart is still 4.

Answer 1

There is now a method destroy available.

I would do it like this:

$('#sv_pickup_date').datepicker('destroy').datepicker({
    format: 'dd/mm/yyyy'
    , autoclose: true
    , startDate: '20/08/2018'
    , endDate: '24/08/2018'
});

Optionally you may want to also use clearDates method.

Like this you can define your own reinitialize method for bootstap datepicker.