jquery datepicker year range default

Question

Having a bit of an issue with the JQuery datePicker, I suspect it's just the matter of a setting I've overlooked or got wrong.

If you look at this simple fiddle: JS Fiddle

You'll see I've set the year range, so that the by default when you click on the input it will open it up on 1994, but if you then click on any of those dates, e.g. 3rd Sept, it'll actually put it in the input as 2012 still, rather than the year that is selected in the drop down menu.

How can I make it so that it uses the correct year without having to change the drop down and then change it back again?

Cheers.

Answer 1

As others have suggested, you have to set the defaultDate. However, unlike the other solutions, you don't want to hardcode the date since your dropdown list will be updating as the years pass since you're doing a relative list.

Try this instead...

function loadDatePicker() {
    $('.datePicker').datepicker({
        dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',
        changeYear: true,
        changeMonth: true,
        yearRange: "-18:-12",
        defaultDate:"-18y-m-d"  // Relative year/month/day
    });
}

Answer 2

Weird, but adding defaultDate:"1994-01-01" to the datepicker options seems to fix it.

Fiddle