I have a jQuery datepicker and I cannot figure out how to programmatically change the month back to the current month. After making a POST request to save the user's dates I need to return the calendar back to the current month. The calendar may be on a different month from the user playing around with different dates. I have tried setting the mindate again but that did not work.

This is not a popup calendar.

I have a jQuery datepicker and I cannot figure out how to programmatically change the month back to the current month. After making a POST request to save the user's dates I need to return the calendar back to the current month. The calendar may be on a different month from the user playing around with different dates. I have tried setting the mindate again but that did not work.

This is not a popup calendar.

• javascript
• jquery
• datepicker

• how do you submit your form? normally direct submit or ajax? – Rami.Q Commented Jan 25, 2014 at 1:04
• @Rami.Q I use ajax. This is why I am having the issue. Because the state does not change. – Johnston Commented Jan 25, 2014 at 1:05
• then on ajax success do setDate as adeneo wrote in the answer – Rami.Q Commented Jan 25, 2014 at 1:15

2 Answers 2

Setting the datepicker back to today

$('#myDatePicker').datepicker('setDate', new Date());

setting just the month back

var date = $('#myDatePicker').datepicker('getDate');

date.setMonth( (new Date()).getMonth() );

$('#myDatePicker').datepicker('setDate', date);

FIDDLE

You can also use .val() to set the date

$("#datepicker").val(date);