Set today's date as default date in jQuery UI datepicker [duplicate]
You need to make the call to setDate separately from the initialization call. So to create the datepicker and set the date in one go:
$("#mydate").datepicker().datepicker("setDate", new Date());Why it is like this I do not know. If anyone did, that would be interesting information.
You have to initialize the datepicker before calling a datepicker method.
$("#mydate").datepicker().datepicker("setDate", new Date());//-initialization--^ ^-- method invokation<link href="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.9.2/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" /><script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script><script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.9.2/jquery-ui.js"></script><input type="text" id="mydate" />Here is a Working JSFiddle.
P.S: This assumes that you have the correct date set in your computer
Its very simple you just add this script,
$("#mydate").datepicker({ dateFormat: "yy-mm-dd"}).datepicker("setDate", new Date());Here, setDate set today date & dateFormat define which format you want set or show.
Hope its simple script work..