Setting Yesterday to Jquery datepicker

Question

I am trying to set yesterdays day to a Jquery datapicker as follows:

$(".datepicker").datepicker("setDate", (new Date().getDate() - 1) );

However, I am always getting todays date. The code is located in $(document).ready and it does get excuted, cause if I comment out the line abobve, no value shows up.

Could anyone point out what I am doing wrong.

Answer 1

From http://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/#method-setDate:

$(".datepicker").datepicker("setDate", -1)

Demo