Issue with DatePicker

[ovrijburg]

When adding this

$( "#startdate" ).datepicker();
$( "#startdate" ).datepicker( "option", "dateFormat", "yy-mm-dd" );
$( "#startdate" ).datepicker.parseDate( "yy-mm-dd", $row_MailingList['startdate'] );

to the function it will show a blank field but once the date is selected it returns the correct date format YYYY-MM-DD, however when I change the order to

$( "#startdate" ).datepicker();
$( "#startdate" ).datepicker.parseDate( "yy-mm-dd", $row_MailingList['startdate'] );
$( "#startdate" ).datepicker( "option", "dateFormat", "yy-mm-dd" );

it shows the date in the field but once you select a new date it returns the date in the format "MM/DD/YYYY" which is not what I want. I need the date to appear in the field and when a new date is selected the field should be updated with the date in the correct format YYYY-MM-DD

[tj.vantoll]

Hi ovrijburg,

Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the jQuery UI project. In order to assess this ticket we need a reduced test case that this issue. You can use this as a starting point: ​http://jsfiddle.net/tj_vantoll/tRdpr/.

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