jQuery UI DatePicker - Change Date Format
Here's one specific for your code:
var date = $('#datepicker').datepicker({ dateFormat: 'dd-mm-yy' }).val();More general info available here:
inside the jQuery script code just paste the code.
$( ".selector" ).datepicker({ dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd' });this should work.
The getDate method of datepicker returns a date type, not a string.
You need to format the returned value to a string using your date format.Use datepicker's formatDate function:
var dateTypeVar = $('#datepicker').datepicker('getDate');$.datepicker.formatDate('dd-mm-yy', dateTypeVar);The full list of format specifiers is available here.