How to get the selected date value while using Bootstrap Datepicker?
For bootstrap datepicker you can use:
$("#inputWithDatePicer").data('datepicker').getFormattedDate('yyyy-mm-dd');
You can try this
$('#startdate').val()or
$('#startdate').data('date')
Bootstrap datepicker (the first result from bootstrap datepickcer search) has a method to get the selected date.
https://bootstrap-datepicker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/methods.html#getdate
getDate: Returns a localized date object representing the internal date object of the first datepicker in the selection. For multidate pickers, returns the latest date selected.
$('.datepicker').datepicker("getDate")or
$('.datepicker').datepicker("getDate").valueOf()