Setting the jQuery UI datepicker's date.

Question

Right now when I click on the date control, I start up at the year 2000! How can I tell it to start showing the current month of the current year?

Thanks!

<script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function () {
            $('#DOB').datepicker({ defaultDate: null });

        });
</script>

With the code above when I click the control I get July 2000 as the starting date.

Answer 1

Set the defaultDate parameter. This works if the attached field is blank. See here:

http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Datepicker#option-defaultDate