Excellent. Thanks for the pointer! It almost worked. To make it work I changed it to
[code] var myStartDate2 = new Date(2009,1-1,15) ... , minDate: myStartDate2 [/code] Thanks for the quick reply - much appreciated. On Jan 29, 12:37 pm, Stephan Veigl <[email protected]> wrote: > Your myStartDate2 is close to the solution, but you try to initialize > a date with a string "2009,1-1,15". > > either you write: > var myStartDate2 = Date(2009,1-1,15) > $("#doDate").datepicker({ ... > , minDate: myStartDate2 > ...}); > > or > $("#doDate").datepicker({ ... > , minDate: new Date(2009, 1-1, 15) > ...}); > > by(e) > Stephan > > 2009/1/29 kathb4 <[email protected]>: > > > > > This may be stupid - but I can't seem to get this to work. > > I want to set a variable to be the date in the mindate > > This does not work > > [code] > > > var myStartDate = "2009-01-15" > > var myStartDate2 = "2009,1-1,15" > > > $("#doDate").datepicker({ > > dateFormat: "yy-mm-dd" > > , hideIfNoPrevNext: true > > , minDate: new Date(myStartDate) > > , maxDate: "0D" // can't put in date after today > > }); > > > nor does this work > > > $("#doDate").datepicker({ > > dateFormat: "yy-mm-dd" > > , hideIfNoPrevNext: true > > , minDate: new Date(myStartDate2) > > , maxDate: "0D" // can't put in date after today > > }); > > [/code] > > > thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
