datepicker repl. input's value using altField

[wende60]

jquery 1.5.1 ui.core/datepicker 1.8.10

Using the altField parameter datepicker replaces the input's value with the current date instead of displaying the input's date. Same behaviour i found in datepicker 1.7, but setting the altField option _after_ initializing (input's value was not modified then) and using setDate did help.

Here you can find an example:

 http://www.wendenburg.de/test/datepicker/

regards, joachim

[scott.gonzalez]

This doesn't seem like a valid use case. The alt field isn't the master; the datepicker is. In your example, you're not actually telling the datepicker what date is selected so it's selecting the first valid date.