How to convert jQuery date picker to select only month and year?

Question

How to convert jQuery date picker to select month and year only?. I tried it using date format, it working but show dates too. I am trying a way to select month and year only

I wrote code,

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css">
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/resources/demos/style.css">
<script>
   $(function() {
       $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker({dateFormat: 'MM yy'});
   });
</script>
<input type="text" id="datepicker">

Answer 1

Your answer is here.

http://jsfiddle.net/bopperben/DBpJe/

$(function() {
$('.date-picker').datepicker( {
    changeMonth: true,
    changeYear: true,
    showButtonPanel: true,
    dateFormat: 'MM yy',
    onClose: function(dateText, inst) { 
        var month = $("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-month :selected").val();
        var year = $("#ui-datepicker-div .ui-datepicker-year :selected").val();
        $(this).datepicker('setDate', new Date(year, month, 1));
    }
});
});

Credits to nitin from his post... jQuery UI DatePicker to show month year only

Answer 2

This is what I did for create a dropdown instead of use datepicker. Just jQuery is needed.

HTML:

 <select class="form-control" id="yearMonthInput"></select>

javascript code:

var months = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"];

    for (i = new Date().getFullYear() ; i > 2008; i--) {
        $.each(months, function (index, value) {
            $('#yearMonthInput').append($('<option />').val(index + "_" + i).html(value + " " + i));
        });                
    }

And looks in this way: